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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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Autores principales: Maria, Arti, Sooden, Ankur, Wadhwa, Rashmi, Kaur, Ravleen, Gaur, Indu, Lhamo, Kalsang, Nagaratna, Vallamkonda
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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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
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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/) .
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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
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9594575/
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