Infection Control and Prevention Strategies in Hospital and Community Settings

Running head: RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT 1
Research Assignment-Topic 1 and 2
Reshmi Gurung
Think Education

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Infection Control
1. Topic 1
Infection control and prevention
2. Reasons for undertaking the research and Rationale
To increase personal knowledge and skills on commonly used infections prevention
strategies in hospital and communities
By understanding the commonly infection control prevention strategies in hospital and
community settings, I will be able to enhance my professional knowledge regarding standards of
care. In addition, this study will enable me be competent in terms of handling patients in hospital
and the way to prevent hospital-acquired infections and in order to improve quality of care.
To improve patient care in hospitals and decrease rates of infections in the community in
order to increase the life expectancy of individuals and their families by reducing both
morbidity and mortality rates.
Hospital-acquired infections are among the major causes of deaths in our hospitals. However,
these infections can be prevented and thus learning about their preventions is crucial in order to
improve patient’s health outcomes.
3. Research question
What are the key strategies of infection prevention in a hospital and a community setting?
4. S.M.A.R.T objectives of the study.
S-This research will be on ‘Infection Control and Prevention’ which will be covered in not more
than 2000 words in order to complete all the objectives
M- I will be able to complete my research by 17th May 2019.

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A-I will be able to finish my research in not more than three weeks of which I will be consulting
my lecturer in every sections and topic
R- I have a personal computer, internet and with accesses to online databases such as CINHAL
and PubMed which I will be able to look for resources online in order to complete my research
objectives. In addition to that, I will be using the school library for more consistent resources.
T- Each section will take a maximum of four days at which I will be consulting with the teacher.
4 days- Planning of all the research activities.
4 days-Gathering information for the research
4 days-Analyzing the gathered information
4 days-Use of the information into practice
5. Discipline connected to the study
Medical practitioners are also connected to the study as they treat, prevent and diagnose
infectious diseases in hospital and community settings. They also give patients education on the
best ways to prevent hospital-acquired infections in collaboration with other health professionals.
6. Two major sources that will be used to address the research question
Source 1
Balsells, E., Filipescu, T., Kyaw, M. H., Wiuff, C., Campbell, H., & Nair, H. (2016). Infection
prevention and control of Clostridium difficile: a global review of guidelines, strategies, and
recommendations. Journal of Global Health. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.06.020410
Source 2
Swaminathan, S., Prasad, J., Dhariwal, A. C., Guleria, R., Misra, M. C., Malhotra, R., ...
Srikantiah, P. (2017). Strengthening infection prevention and control and systematic

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surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in India. BMJ (Online).
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3768
7. Two major methods of gathering information
Use of systematic reviews
Systematic reviews articles always provide best available practices that are consisted and widely
accepted and contain minimal bias. This is due to the fact that most systematic reviews have high
levels of validity, use ethics, maintain research protocols, provides study methods and population
and are transparent with their conclusions and recommendations.
Literature Reviews
Literature reviews will be useful in this study as they provide what literature and theories say
about infection preventions methods available creating a gap for the study prior to the research.
8. Four major sources and their hierarchy of evidence
Source 1 systematic review
Andrade, V. L. F., & Fernandes, F. A. V. (2016). Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract
infection: implementation strategies of international guidelines. Revista Latino-Americana
de Enfermagem. https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.0963.2678
Source 2 systematic review
Swaminathan, S., Prasad, J., Dhariwal, A. C., Guleria, R., Misra, M. C., Malhotra, R., ...
Srikantiah, P. (2017). Strengthening infection prevention and control and systematic
surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in India. BMJ (Online).
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3768

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Source 3 systematic Review
Balsells, E., Filipescu, T., Kyaw, M. H., Wiuff, C., Campbell, H., & Nair, H. (2016). Infection
prevention and control of Clostridium difficile: a global review of guidelines, strategies, and
recommendations. Journal of Global Health. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.06.020410
Source 4 systematic Review
Trautner, B. W., Greene, M. T., Krein, S. L., Wald, H. L., Saint, S., Rolle, A. J., ... Mody, L.
(2017). Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship Knowledge for Selected
Infections among Nursing Home Personnel. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2016.228
9. The most relevant article as related to the study objectives
The article by Swaminathan et al., 2017, is the most relevant article in the study. This article is a
systematic review with a wide range of best available evidence that can be used to prevent
infectious disease in India. This article covers a wide range of prevention strategies employed in
India for infection control. The article shows hoe communities suffers due to poor strategies and
lack of preventive bundle. In addition to that, the article demonstrates various programs that have
been employed to face out infections and how they have failed. However, this article also
demonstrates how infections can be prevented in hospitals, the community at the national level.
Such strategies include the development of preventive standard bundle for infection control, use
of various strategies like cleanliness, hand hygiene, and training of healthcare professional using
best practices on how to control infections.
10. Analysis of information found in each article

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Article one Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship Knowledge for
Selected Infections among Nursing Home Personnel (Trautner et al., 2017)
This is a systematic review study was conducted to check the knowledge of health care
workers in the nursing home regarding infection prevention. This study included 10
participants where five of them were licensed and five unlicensed. All data collection and
methods of study have been well demonstrated. The results show that 99.1 % of licensed
personnel understood the impact and effects of infection and could well demonstrate various
methods of prevention and definition of terminologies.
Article two Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection: implementation
strategies of international guidelines (Andrade & Fernandes, 2016)
This is a systematic review from peer-reviewed articles searched on online databases. The
study was conducted to determine strategies that healthcare professionals apply in the
prevention of catheter-related infections. All methods of how data was collected and
analyzed are well demonstrated with rigid conclusions and discussion. This study
demonstrates high levels of validity as all data seems reliable. Some of the preventive
strategies included are hand washing and the use of preventive guidelines.
Article 3 Strengthening infection prevention and control and systematic surveillance of
healthcare-associated infections in India (Swaminathan et al., 2017)
This is both a systematic review and a surveillance study. This study demonstrates various
commonly infections control strategies and available programs that have been used all over
the country in India. The article provides valid information from various government
guidelines and how they can be applied.