Nursing Research Project on Hand Hygiene Protocol and Use of Personal Protective Equipments for Reduction of Hospital Acquired Infection

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Nursing
Name of the Student
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Abstract
In Australia there is an increase in the level of HAIs which increases the overall healthcare
cost and increase in the length of stay at the hospital. The main research question for this
nursing project is whether the nursing knowledge of hand hygiene protocol and use of
personal projective equipments helps in the reduction of the hospital acquired infection.
Nurses were selected as the main focus group as they spent majority of the time patients. A
qualitative research was conducted with open ended interview. 3 nurse mangers were
interviewed with 4 questions for about 15 minutes. The transcript of the interview was
analysed through phenomenological analysis and it generate two themes. Theme 1: Training
helps to increase compliance and Theme 2: Availability of proper resources helps to increase
compliance. The analysis of the theme revealed that proper training helps to increase nurse
awareness and nursing compliance. Moreover, proper availability of resources is also
important to increase the level of compliance.

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Table of Contents
Topic..........................................................................................................................................3
Research Question......................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................3
Relevance to the nursing knowledge..........................................................................................4
Research Gap.............................................................................................................................5
Project framework......................................................................................................................6
Method of data-collection..........................................................................................................6
Method of data-analysis.............................................................................................................7
Findings of the research.............................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Recommendation........................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11
Appendix..................................................................................................................................13

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Topic
Nursing research project on whether the nursing knowledge of hand hygiene protocol
and use of personal projective equipments helps in the reduction of the hospital acquired
infection
Research Question
Population (P) Nursing professionals
Interventions (I) Nursing knowledge of proper application of hand hygiene and personal
protective equipments (PPE)
Comparison (C) No hand hygiene and no use of PPE
Outcomes (O) Decrease in the level of hospital acquired infections of noscomial
infection
Literature Review
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) is one of the common problems, which increase
the length of stay in the hospital along with an increase in the overall healthcare costs. Thus
increase in the rate of incidence of the HAIs hampers the overall process of care (Slimings et
al., 2014). Barnett et al. (2013) stated that HAIs increase patient’s risk of death and increase
their length of stay in the hospital. These incidences are common in the intensive care unit
(ICU). Death in the ICU arising out of HAIs occurs due to bloodstream infection (BSI)
(Barnett et al., 2013). The main source of the HAIs in Australia, is Clostridium difficile and
such infection is common among the patients attending to the any area of an public hospital
like inpatient department, psychiatric department, rehabilitation unit, aged care, emergency