Healthcare Associated Infections in Evidence-based nursing practices

RUNNING HEAD: HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
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Healthcare associated infections
in Evidence-based nursing
practices
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HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS 2
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Indications of healthcare associated infections in healthcare settings.........................................3
Prevalence and Incidence of Healthcare associated infections in Australia................................4
Risk associated with Healthcare associated infections................................................................4
Evidence based research synthesis of Healthcare associated infection in Healthcare Systems......5
Clinical question..........................................................................................................................5
Does maintaining hygiene and sanitations among healthcare workers reduce hospital
associated infections?..................................................................................................................5
Domain........................................................................................................................................5
Evidence search...........................................................................................................................5
Articles used:...............................................................................................................................6
Critical appraisal..............................................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) are infections patients receive in medical
treatments or surgical conditions which are preventable. In modern times, healthcare works on
many types of hostile devices and practise for treating patients to help them in recovery. These
infections are associated with practices such as surgery and medical practices done through
devices like ventilators or catheters. It is caused due to mortality and illness in Australia with
increase in healthcare costs every year substantially. HAIs occurs in acute care hospitals, tertiary
hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers; dialysis, outpatient and long-term care facilities. The
objectives of HAIs commit to establish Healthy People 2020 of Health and Human Services
(HHS) for prevention mainly bloodstream. The HAIs consists of surgical site infections,
bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, clostridium difficile and
pneumonia. In this report, the aim is to prevent, reduce and eliminate HAIs discussing the
nursing practices based on evidence in hospitals for identification and justification of clinical
problems using PICO tool for appropriateness, criteria appraisal with recommending improving
HAIs in hospitals of Australia.
Indications of healthcare associated infections in healthcare settings
The HAIs is caused due to healthcare intervention outcomes which occurs in and outside
the hospitals such as bloodstream infections caused by the presence of an intravenous device or
any infected surgical wound at the time of surgical procedure wherein some cases it leads to
death in Australia (Russo, Cheng, Richards, Graves, & Hall, 2015).. It is challenging to quantify
the preventable proportion of HAIs as Australia is one of the developed countries without
national HAI surveillance program. The emergence of Carbapenemase-producing
Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) globally is the bacteria possess enzymes that hydrolyse the common of