Health Infection Risk Management : Assignment
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Health infection risk managementIntroductionClinical audit is an essential tool in infection risk management. Clinical audit is the assessment of the healthcare facility to determine whether the services being provided comply with the set standards. The aim of clinical audit is to check on the compliance to safety standards by the healthcare providers. In this case, the audit identifies areas prone to infections and providing an audit report, which details on the measures that can be taken to manage the risks. In addition, clinical audit identifies mistake and errors in the nature of healthcare delivery like the non- compliance to hand washing guidelines, therefore, ensuring that proper steps are taken to enhance patient outcome. Therefore, the focus of clinical audit is to evaluate on the performance of clinicians in order to provide an assurance report that the services given by the health facility are in line with the guiding standards. Importance of Clinical AuditProfessional Growth One of the benefits of clinical audit is that, it promotes professional growth. For instance, it givesclinicians the opportunity to engage in peer reviews from where they gain confidence in their clinical activities thus enabling positive patient outcome. Additionally, in the case where the audit presents a patient case study, professional come together, thus enhancing professional growth (Siebenaler, Czech & Roach, 2017). Through the clinical audit, clinicians are able to benefit from peer-pear reviews, which enhance self-confidence. In this case, through the peer reviews, clinicians are able to identify their strengths and weaknesses, which is imperative in healthcare delivery. Clinicians should be aware of the performance and their practice so that
appropriate adjustments can be made to enhance professional growth and improve the healthcare services. Thus, clinical audit enables clinicians to be aware of what is expected of them and the adjustments needed in their profession to ensure patient safety.Improved Patient SafetyA clinical audit is a systematic examination of the performance of team, individual, or organization’s clinical work. The process entails the measurement of clinical outcome to provide quality services; the outcome of the audit is interpreted through peer review and consultation. Further, the audit focuses on the performance of clinicians in terms of quality of services where the audit examines and gather evidence on the clinical actions, which is then, interpreted using patient outcome parameters, clinical performances, and the regulating standards in order to determine the areas that need improvement in order to enhance patient safely (Weiss, Simon, Graf & Linsler, 2017).Improvement of the managementClinical audit is key to an improved management (Sinha, Murthy, Nath, Morris & Millar, 2016). A good clinical audit gives the management the opportunity to report accurately on their outcome with the potential of comparing and analyzing patient outcome, perform peer review, and to reduce patient healthcare cost. Further, clinical audit gives the management an opportunity to assess the organization processes in relation to the clinical practice, this is important as it helps in the identification of problematic areas or weakness in management so that appropriate changes can be made to ensure patient safety. Therefore, through clinical audit, the management acquires knowledge on the areas within the organization that need improvement(Wilson, Bak & Loveday, 2017).
High Risk Areas that should be auditedShared Clinical equipmentsSharing clinical equipments can lead to the spread of infections as it acts as a media between which infections can be transferred from one patient to the other (Solomkin, 2015). Some of the shared equipments that can spread infections include x- ray machines, haemodialyis machines, and dental instruments. Therefore, it is important for the auditors to examine whether proper mechanisms are used to prevent the contamination of equipment and surfaces as per the regulating standard. Further, the auditors will assess on whether surface barriers like sheets, tubings, and other instruments are cleaned between patients to prevent the spread of infections (Wick, Siebenaler, Czech & Roach, 2017).Clinical WasteClinical waste if not properly management can be a source of infections. Clinical waste management is essential in the prevention of infections (Zimmerman, Gilbert, Brown & Shaban, 2016). Clinical waste is anything that can endanger the life of both the clinician and the patient; this includes wound dressings, used needles, and many other substances like gloves or aprons which might contain human blood or body substances. In this case, clinical waste should be properly disposed or managed. Clinical waste can be managed starting from the source of production where the clinical wastes is collected using special tools and taken to a special room where segregation is done. From this point, the waste that is of value recycled while the harmful one can be gotten rid by burring deep into the earth’s surface to avoid injury to both human beings and the environment. In this case, the auditor should ensure that the clinical waste management procedures are followed as per the organizational policies. Clinical waste audit is
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