Analysis of NPSG Goal 7: Healthcare Acquired Infections in Healthcare

This report examines National Patient Safety Goal 7 (NPSG), emphasizing the reduction of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). It discusses the role of the Joint Commission in setting these goals to improve patient safety within healthcare settings. The report highlights key issues such as the lack of proper hand hygiene, insufficient review of complications, and inadequate prevention of surgical site and bloodstream infections. It underscores the importance of clean water and sterilization, citing violations of NPSG guidelines due to deficiencies in these areas. The report suggests evidence-based checkups, adherence to CDC and WHO hygiene prescriptions, and the maintenance of clean water supplies as crucial measures to address these violations and improve patient outcomes. The report also analyzes the impact of these issues and provides recommendations for improvement.

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NSPG Goal 7 (Healthcare Acquired Infections)
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The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) seeks to provide and improve the safety of
patients in a healthcare setup. To assist the existing organizations in responding to some regions
of security and reliable healthcare, the Joint Commission had to be developed in the NPSGs. The
Joint Commission prioritizes on the safety of the patient and how the treatment programs are set
to meet the specification of the patient's condition. NPSG goal 7 puts its emphasis on reducing
the healthcare-associated with infections (Dykes, & Schnock, 2016). The infections can be
caused by not observing hand hygiene, untimely death and complication reviews, lack of surgical
site infection prevention, and CVL-associated bloodstream infection prevention, among others.
The goals are arrived at by the TJC in NPSG to improve the patients' health conditions.
In most healthcare organizations, there is a lack of clean and sterilized water that the
doctors can use in washing their hands before and after attending to a particular patient. The
NPSG violated this goal since most of the healthcare organizations did not have a constant
supply of water and enough supply of sterilizing reagents. Every facility should ensure that it has
met all the certifications before starting its operation. Failure to meeting all the guidelines, the
NPSG should never allow any healthcare organization to operate. Hand washing helps to prevent
contaminations and transfer of bacteria and viruses from one patient to another and persons
working the hospital (Levenhagen, & Keeney, 2015). Moreover, healthcare organizations have
recorded several deaths and complications. This is due to lack of proper analysis of the root
cause of the complexities at earlier stages so that unnecessary deaths can be avoided.
To resolve this violation, the NPSG come up with evidence-based checkups to minimize
the surgical site infections. Furthermore, the organizations were made to abide by the current
center for disease control and prevention obtained from World Health Organization hygiene

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prescriptions. Besides, there should be a constant supply of clean water and other disinfectants to
the hospital.
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