Current aspects of the safety hospital environment

Abstract

When providing medical assistance either in terms of the medical institution or outside, there are always certain risks posing a threat to the patients and personnel health. According to the patients opinions, those risks are linked closely to medical practitioners professionalism level, their compliance with disinfection and sterilization regimes, proper hands decontamination, wearing gloves, availability of the disposable sterile equipment / instruments. Other studies found evidence of it in terms of health care setting and, specifically, indicate violation of the hospital hygiene and epidemiology standards, disinfection being carried out manually using the working disinfectant solutions, “human factor” demonstrating through non-compliance with the disinfectant application regimes. Only about one-third of the medical workers showed satisfactory knowledge on hand hygiene. All these problems mentioned and others require to explore conceptual framework of the educational program “Safe hospital environment” which is taught to the medical students and are supposed to be reviewed annually and updated accordingly, taking into account the latest scientific achievements. This article provides an overview of a new concept of “Safe hospital environment” as the educational module, included in the nursing discipline “Training for developing Basic Professional Skills, including Basic Skills in Scientific Research”. Discipline is studied by the first level medical students.