Risk Management of Health Associated Infection

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Introduction: Healthcare associated infection (HAI) has shown its prevalence among the
patients decreasing the quality of life, increasing length of stay, developing further
complications, slowing down the recovery and ultimately leading to mortality of the patients.
HAIs involve a range of infections that are mainly spread through infected hands of the health
workers (HWs). Not only the inpatients are susceptible to HAIs but also the healthcare workers
are at an increasing risk of getting infected. Thus, there is an increasing need to address the risk
areas through proper risk assessment and develop and implement strategies for risk management
(Hoffmann et al., 2019).
Rationale: Although, every health workers are aware of the role and importance of maintaining
hand hygiene in alleviating the risk of HAIs, a very few HWs actually practice in the clinical
settings by complying with the hand hygiene strategies to eradicate the risk of HAIs. Thus, the
risk management intervention, that is, monitoring the frequency of hand washing of the HWs,
must be designed in order to track or record their compliance with the same. According to the
WHO guidelines, the intervention program for reducing the risk of HAIs must aim at monitoring
every HWs adherence and compliance followed by feedback on their performance. Thus, with
respect to had hygiene, a strict monitoring system to provide routine system monitoring and
management must be deployed in order to risk management (Who.int, 2019).
Support: It has been reported that nearly 1.7 million hospitalized patients acquire HAIs during
the course of their treatment for other health conditions and around 98,000 patients among them
die as a result of HAIs. Such increased prevalence not only decreased patient safety, but also
raised questions on the safety of the workers. It is important to increase safety of the workers by