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Abstract
Back ground: hospital community, patients and visitors are potentially exposed to
infections during care or by any movement in the hospital. The practice of standard
precautions is widely promoted to protect from exposure to this infection. However;
there is suboptimal practice in preventing exposure, especially, in resource limited
settings.
Objective: The objective of this project was to improve infection prevention practice
standards by the end of December 2016.
Methodology: A pre-post facility based interventional study of 76 health workers
working in IPD, OR, Emergency, maternity and other areas that procedures performed
wards was conducted using self-administered questionnaires, observation checklist
and key interview guide. Purposive sampling was used to select the study participants.
Result: A total of 156health care providers working in different service area of the
hospitals participated in the assessment of infection prevention standards precaution
knowledge and practice.78 of them in the pre post and 78 in the post interventions as
respondents for the quantitative study. 89 (57%) reported they have practiced during
interview 90.2 %( n=75) after intervention and 20.3 %(n=14) before intervention
During observation 50% (n =156) of staffs implemented infection prevention practice
both in pre and post intervention period from these 76.9%(n=60) of after intervention
20%(n=18) before intervention. The all over infection prevention practice ranges from
11.4% to 77.6%
Conclusion: The finding of this capstone project suggests that is a simple set of
intervention can accomplished the desired increment of infection prevention standard
precautions. This project indicates that effective and inexpensive interventions can
actually improve the quality of care.
Recommendation: Should follow sustainability of the project s to control infection
through infection prevention practice. |
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