Survey and analysis on the general surgery department medical staff hand hygiene compliance in a hospital

Abstract

Objective To understand the hand hygiene condition and influence factors by researching, evaluating and analyzing the hand hygiene of medical personnel in the general surgery department of hospital. Methods A self-designed hand hygiene knowledge questionnaire was used to investigate 90 medical personnel of general surgery department of our hospital.Among them, there were 32 doctors and 58 nurses. Results 94.44%(85/90) of medical workers knew the seven-step method and 10.00%(9/90) believed wearing gloves can replace hand washing or hand disinfection.There were statistically significant differences in hand-washing rates between doctors and nurses before and after contact with patients and between medical and nursing operations (P<0.05). The average amount of bacteria before and after hand-washing by doctors and nurses was respectively (46.033±4.673)cfu/cm2, (36.281±3.029)cfu/cm2, (8.392±1.065)cfu/cm2 and(5.368±0.573)cfu/cm2. Conclusions By hand washing can effectively remove general surgery medical staff hand most of the bacteria, managers should strengthen the hand hygiene knowledge training and supervision, improve the quality of medical staff hand hygiene consciousness and prevention and control the occurrence of hospital infection. Key words: General surgery; Medical staff; Hand hygiene; Compliance