Nursing Hand Washing Project Outcome

Now that you have completed a series of assignments that have led you into the active project planning and development stage for your project, briefly describe your proposed solution to address the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and how it has changed since you first envisioned it. What led to your current perspective and direction?

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Hand Hygiene Strategic Plan

Angelica Garza

GCU

NRS 493

Dr. Amy Foss

July 11, 2021

Hand Hygiene Strategic Plan

This strategic plan entails the details of hygiene practice interventions that will be implemented to reduce the spread of infections among Columbus County residents. Currently, the county is experiencing hand-hygiene related infections, that can only be resolved if they collectively work together to encourage hand washing. In most home health care settings, hand hygiene-related infections persist as a major concern and are a key reason for unfavorable health outcomes such as morbidity. The first phase of the plan therefore involves creating awareness and breaking cultural barriers to entry. To overcome cultural challenges, the community should be made to understand that maintaining hand hygiene is the most crucial procedure for preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

Initially, proper hand sanitation included cleaning with hand sanitizers or using soap and water to stop germs from spreading. However, the Handwashing Guidelines by The United State Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recently been modified, and the most recommended technique is using hand rubs or sanitizers to clean hands (Haque, 2020). This plan therefore involves giving people of the public access to affordable hand sanitizers. It will contribute to the reduction of germ dissemination and hence decrease patient infections.

Besides, this approach intends to develop an environment that guarantees the safety of community members, through the participation of specialists, key decision makers and physicians in creating hand hygiene awareness. This initiative is additionally aimed at fostering community engagement to assist in the generation and execution of recommendations. Involving the community is vital to the implementation of the plan since it will ensure the continuity of the project, even after the project initiators have left.

References

Haque, M. (2020). Handwashing in averting infectious diseases: Relevance to COVID-19. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 27(SP1), e37-e52.