A 15 page study proposal that addresses the problem of non-compliance of hospital personnel with proper hand hygiene protocols. The writer outlines the problems with infection caused by non-compliance, offer a literature review of hand washing in the literature and proposes a study designed to improve hand sanitizing compliance through an educational intervention and the introduction of easily accessible alcohol rub sanitizer throughout the proposed study site. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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just happen sometimes" (Hoover, 2007, p. 125). This commentator goes on to point out that aircraft carriers are also complex institutions that are generally staffed by "19-year-old kids with a
high-school education," but that "things do not (just) happen" aboard these warships" (Hoover, 2007, p. 125). In a neonatal nursery in Southern California in December of 2006, six infants became
"septic from pseudomonas aeruginosa," which occurred due to using a contaminated laryngoscope (Hoover, 2007, p. 125). How does one inform parents that their infant died because a practitioner failed to
take the time to clean an instrument-or do something that is even simpler-- wash their hands? Healthcare practitioners know that they should wash
their hands. Yet, empirical evidence says that, in general, they do not. Compliance with stated hand hygiene protocols at many healthcare institutions remains notorious low. The lack of adequate
hand washing continues to be the primary cause of nosocomial, that is, hospital acquired infection in the US (Dunagan, et al, 2002). For over 150 years, healthcare practitioners have been
aware of the danger of cross-infections and infections are transmissible from one patient to the next. Also they have known that the most effective way to avoid this danger is
to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doctors that, while they know this, "...they dont do it. They dont
merely not do it every time, they dont do it most of the time and sometimes not even when it be most expected, as when caring for an intensive care
unit (ICU) or emergency room patient" (Heseltine, 2001, p. 4). As this suggests, in most hospitals, hand washing is still the exception rather than the rule and most studies indicate