Rewarding and recognizing frontline staff for success in infection prevention

Management practices help support efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Providing rewards and recognition to frontline staff is one management practice found to be in use by hospitals that are higher-performers in HAI prevention. Using data from interviews with hospital manager...

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Autores principales: Gaughan, Alice A., Walker, Daniel M., DePuccio, Matthew J., MacEwan, Sarah R., McAlearney, Ann Scheck
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32615231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.208
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description Management practices help support efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Providing rewards and recognition to frontline staff is one management practice found to be in use by hospitals that are higher-performers in HAI prevention. Using data from interviews with hospital managers and frontline staff at 18 US hospitals, our study identifies how managers can use reward and recognition programs as motivational tools to sustain frontline HAI prevention efforts.
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spelling pubmed-73243332020-06-30 Rewarding and recognizing frontline staff for success in infection prevention Gaughan, Alice A. Walker, Daniel M. DePuccio, Matthew J. MacEwan, Sarah R. McAlearney, Ann Scheck Am J Infect Control Brief Report Management practices help support efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Providing rewards and recognition to frontline staff is one management practice found to be in use by hospitals that are higher-performers in HAI prevention. Using data from interviews with hospital managers and frontline staff at 18 US hospitals, our study identifies how managers can use reward and recognition programs as motivational tools to sustain frontline HAI prevention efforts. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7324333/ /pubmed/32615231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.208 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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