1. B Y : A N D R E A N E V I L L E
P R E - N U R S I N G M A J O R
Influence of effective interventions
on hand hygiene compliance in
healthcare workers

2. Major Points
 Nosocomial Infections
 Reasons for Low compliance
 Research Design
 Plan for Implementation

3. Nosocomial infections
 “Nosocomial infections are a major challenge to the
heath-care system and are associated with significant
mortality, morbidity, and economic burden”
(Salama, et al. 2012).
 Nosocomial infections are also known as hospital
acquired infections, and their development is solely
from a hospital environment.

4. Reasons for Low Compliance among healthcare
workers
 Poor education among health care workers
 Cutaneous infection
 Understaffing or large workload
 No patient involvement
 Lack of disinfection dispensers

5. Research Design
 When: January 2013 to January 2014
 Where: The Coronary Care Unit in Fairfax Hospital
and Fair Oaks Hospital

6. Implementation at the Hospitals
Fairfax Hospital
 Intervention includes all
strategies for poor hand
hygiene compliance
 education on proper hand
hygiene compliance,
 awareness of cutaneous
infection,
 adequate amount of
healthcare workers
 patient participation
 sufficient amounts of
disinfection dispensers in
proper locations.
Fair Oaks Hospital
 Intervention includes one
strategies for poor hand
hygiene compliance
 Education on proper hand
hygiene compliance

7. How will these reasons be implemented though
the intervention?
 education on proper hand hygiene compliance and
awareness of cutaneous infection-through monthly
educational sessions
 adequate amount of healthcare workers- hiring
enough staff
 patient participation- bringing awareness of hand
hygiene compliance to patients for participation
 sufficient amounts of disinfection dispensers in
proper locations-providing them in exact locations

8. Further implementation
 Creating more interventions in the United States to
lower nosocomial infections and raise hand hygiene
compliance rates.

9. References
 Salama, M., Jamal, W., Mousa, H., Al-Abdulghani,
K., & Rotimi, V. (2013). The effect of hand
hygiene compliance on hospital-acquired
infections in an ICU setting in a Kuwaiti teaching
hospital. Journal Of Infection And Public Health,
6(1), 27-34. doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2012.09.014