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ange from $28 billion to as high as $45 billion per year” (Healthcare-Associated Infections 2019) Discuss your investigation of the problem or issue. Provide evidence to substantiate the pro... blem or issue (e.g., organizational assessment, national source documents, evidence from a stakeholder). In my facility we use what we call “secret shoppers” to monitor hand hygiene compliance. These are chosen representatives of a specific unit that observes the actions taken by those in the unit. In this assessment this includes all personnel such as nurses, MD, Respirator, lab techs radiology and so on that enter the room or have patient contact. The secret shopper watches someone go into the room and they are assessed based on needed actions “Did they foam or wash before going in”? Did they foam or wash between surface touches?” Did they foam or wash coming out?”. The secret shopper writes down job title on the form and mark Yes or No based on if they followed proper hand hygiene. The secret shoppers make minim 50 observations in 1 month and turns them into infection prevention. The previous 3 months of hand hygiene compliance percent prior to my project are as follows below. Critical Care Hand Hygiene Month Compliance percent January 2019 70% December 2018 58% November 2018 62% The expectation is 100% compliance for hand hygiene hospital wide and with the numbers above for my unit we are far off. There was definitely significant room for [Show More]

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