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Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care
In our newborn intensive care unit (NICU), we practise family participatory care, where the unit staff encourage parents and attendants of sick newborns to partner with them and be involved in care for their babies. There remains a concern that this practice may increase the risk of nosocomial infec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594575/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36270651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001811 |
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author | Maria, Arti Sooden, Ankur Wadhwa, Rashmi Kaur, Ravleen Gaur, Indu Lhamo, Kalsang Nagaratna, Vallamkonda |
author_facet | Maria, Arti Sooden, Ankur Wadhwa, Rashmi Kaur, Ravleen Gaur, Indu Lhamo, Kalsang Nagaratna, Vallamkonda |
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description | In our newborn intensive care unit (NICU), we practise family participatory care, where the unit staff encourage parents and attendants of sick newborns to partner with them and be involved in care for their babies. There remains a concern that this practice may increase the risk of nosocomial infections being carried into the unit by parent-attendants. Staff observed that handwashing behaviours were suboptimal and inconsistent among parent-attendants. With facilitation from an improvement coach, we formed a quality improvement team of NICU staff to improve hand hygiene practices among attendants. From a baseline estimate of around 20% of attendants adhering to hand hygiene standards, the team planned to reach a target of 80% over 8 weeks by introducing a series of changes. At the end of 9 weeks, 80% of attendants were following standard hand hygiene practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-95945752022-10-26 Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care Maria, Arti Sooden, Ankur Wadhwa, Rashmi Kaur, Ravleen Gaur, Indu Lhamo, Kalsang Nagaratna, Vallamkonda BMJ Open Qual Quality Improvement Report In our newborn intensive care unit (NICU), we practise family participatory care, where the unit staff encourage parents and attendants of sick newborns to partner with them and be involved in care for their babies. There remains a concern that this practice may increase the risk of nosocomial infections being carried into the unit by parent-attendants. Staff observed that handwashing behaviours were suboptimal and inconsistent among parent-attendants. With facilitation from an improvement coach, we formed a quality improvement team of NICU staff to improve hand hygiene practices among attendants. From a baseline estimate of around 20% of attendants adhering to hand hygiene standards, the team planned to reach a target of 80% over 8 weeks by introducing a series of changes. At the end of 9 weeks, 80% of attendants were following standard hand hygiene practices. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9594575/ /pubmed/36270651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001811 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Quality Improvement Report Maria, Arti Sooden, Ankur Wadhwa, Rashmi Kaur, Ravleen Gaur, Indu Lhamo, Kalsang Nagaratna, Vallamkonda Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
title | Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
title_full | Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
title_fullStr | Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
title_short | Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
title_sort | improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care |
topic | Quality Improvement Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594575/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36270651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001811 |
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