Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Robert McWhirt

Abstract

In the health care sector, hand hygiene has been identified as one of the most appropriate approaches to preventing health-associated infections or nosocomial infections. A nursing home in the western United States had repeated survey findings showed that their hand hygiene compliance rates did not meet the expectations of the Long-Term Care Institute. This project was aimed to develop and implement an education program to improve hand hygiene compliance in a nursing home setting. The project practice question asked whether an education program would increase staff’s knowledge of hand hygiene methods within a skilled nursing facility. The Joint Commission’s Targeted Solutions Tool was used to develop an education plan to address impediments to compliance, particularly attitudes and perceptions about the importance of hand hygiene and safety. A pre- and post-intervention survey that consisted of 12 questions was used to measure the effectiveness of the education provided to the clinical staff (n=?). The data were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics, percentages. The findings demonstrated that the educational intervention effectively increased the knowledge of most of the participants. The findings further revealed that there were aspects regarding hand hygiene practices and compliance that many of the clinical staff were unaware of and that the education addressed those misconceptions. The implications of project findings for positive social change were targeted at empowering clinical staff through increased knowledge to address negative hand hygiene compliance issues at the front line of clinical practice and sustain long-term positive results.

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