Audit on Infection Control Practices Among Health Care Workers: Perspective by a Infection Prevention Nurse

Abstract

Hospital Infection control is very essential for the safety and wellbeing of patients, hospital staffs and visitors of the hospital. It affects various Departments of the hospital and it also involves problems of quality risk management, clinical governance of health and safety. Many factors stimulate infections among hospitalized patients – ‘decreased resistance among patients’; ‘increasing variation of medical procedures’ and ‘invasive techniques crafting potential routes of infection’; and ‘the transmission of drug-resistant bacteria’ are packed among hospital populations’, where poor practice in infection control may facilitate transmission. Audit means checking actual practice against a standard; it should permit reporting of noncompliance or issues of concern by either healthcare workers (HCW) or the Infection Control Team (ICT). Providing results of the audit to staff enables them to identify where improvement is needed.1 Audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care compared with explicit criteria and the subsequent implementation of change.