Importance of Infection Prevention in Healthcare Settings

This presentation highlights the importance of infection prevention in healthcare settings and the responsibilities of both employers and employees in preventing the spread of infection. It also discusses the strategies that can be adopted to maintain a clean and safe environment for patients and medical staff. The presentation cites relevant sources and references to support the information presented.

Health and Safety in Care Settings

Infection prevention:
 Infection prevention fends off the spread of infection in healthcare settings. A
new vision can be improved on for the initial expansion in infection prevention
campaigns.
 The nursing homes for adults aim to improve occupational health and safety for all
employees. Care homes need to have their staff specialized and to train them with the
best hygienic practices (Michaels and Wagner, 2020).
 It is the responsibility of both employer and employees to prevent infection within
healthcare settings.

Source: The infection prevention and control, 2022

Employer Responsibilities:
 For maintaining infection prevention, employers must adopt specific
strategies such as availability of Personal protective equipment for all medical staff.
 This will help the concerned employer in taking measures for the working
environment of the employees.
 Disinfecting and keeping hospital area and surfaces clean is also an important
measure, where employers need to implement new strategies. Employers should be
made aware of the proper usage of techniques within patients’ treatment for
maintaining clean environment (Fix and et.al., 2018).
 Providing infection control education is essential to create awareness among
medical staff and other employees.

Source: Effective hand hygiene requires soap and water, 2022

Employee Responsibilities –
 The employees at nursing homes such as doctors, medical staff and nurses who are handling
patient’s treatments must abide by the best safety measures to reduce infection spread.
• Clinical nurses, doctors and care givers must professionally indulge in providing the care
benefits and safety measures to the patients.
• There has to be a significant compliance done towards the usage of sterilized medical
equipment and techniques while performing surgeries (Cometto amd et.al., 2018).
• The employees also have the responsibility of using personal protective equipment within the
care setting.
• Clinical nurses and doctors must assure that operation theaters and clinical area are cleaned,
and sanitized in timely manner for the proper adoption of infection prevention measures.

Source: What is the role of infection control nurses, 2020

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
 Michaels, D. and Wagner, G. R., 2020. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and worker
safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jama. 324(14). pp.1389-1390.
 Fix, G.M . and et.al., 2018. Patient‐centred care is a way of doing things: How healthcare employees
conceptualize patient‐centred care. Health Expectations. 21(1). pp.300-307.
 Cometto, G amd et.al., 2018. Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker
programmes: an abridged WHO guideline. The Lancet Global Health. 6(12). pp.e1397-e1404.