Hand Washing Practices: A Discussion on Improving Health Outcomes

This discussion board post examines the critical role of hand washing in public health and its impact on the health sector. The assignment delves into the significance of hand washing practices, exploring how they can reduce infections and improve overall health outcomes. The student utilized the PICOT framework to explore hand washing research and its benefits. The research involved searching for articles and utilizing keywords like “hand wash and hygiene” and “hand wash and health sector,” along with Boolean operators to refine the search. The assignment highlights the importance of hand washing and its potential to contribute to a healthier future, referencing relevant studies and providing insights into future trends. The assignment also references resources to support the information provided, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of hand washing practices and their impact on the health sector.

MODULE 2: Discussion 5

The article has been searched through considering the most common and the most vital
practice which is generally avoided by the people that is “hand wash”. Through exploring the
internet on hand wash exercises, the PICOT hand wash research article was fund which
revealed that a simple exercise by humans could contribute hugely to the health sector.
Problem (P) Increasing Infectious Diseases
Intervention (I) Hand Washing
Comparison (C) Casual attitude towards infections
Outcome (O) Reduction in Infectious Diseases
The article provides a broad and wide information on the hand washing practice and the
results that could be achieved through enhancing its practice. For reaching out to the
concerned article, the exploration of the hand wash practices database has been utilised and
this helped in reaching to the productive outcomes. The keywords from the PICO question
such as the practice of hand wash, benefits of hand wash, future of health sector through
enhancing the hand wash practice, etc. were utilised for exploring the information on the
PICO question (Fox et al. 2015). The secondary source has been the main strategy for the
research which helped in gathering the historical data along with the framing up of the future
of hand wash practices and its contribution to the health sector in future (Haverstick et al.
2017). The Boolean connectors has been the most beneficial for the search as it helped in
connecting the two important terms that is “hand wash and hygiene, hand wash or sanitizers,
hand wash and health sector, etc.” These Booleans provided accuracy to the search and to the
information.

References
Fox, C., Wavra, T., Drake, D., Mulligan, D., Bennett, Y., Nelson, C., Kirkwood, P., Jones L.,
and Bader, M. (2015). Use of a patient hand hygiene protocol to reduce-hospital
acquired infections and improve nurses’ hand washing. American Journal of
Critical Care 24 (3): 217-223.
Haverstick, S., Goodrich, C., Freeman, R., James, S., Kullar, R., & Ahrens, M. (2017).
Patient’s
hand washing and reducing hospital-acquired infection. Critical Care Nurse, 37(3).
doi:10.4037/ccn2017694