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Find 5 peer reviewed articles about your capstone project. Write a literature review.
Please follow the assignment rubric
- A literature review is not an annotated bibliography in which you summarize briefly each article that you have reviewed.
- While a summary of what you have read is contained within the literature review, it goes well beyond merely summarizing professional literature.
- It focuses on a specific topic of interest and includes your critical analysis of the relationship among different works, and relating this research to your work.
- In this case your work will be your capstone project.
- It may be written as a stand-alone paper or to provide a theoretical framework and rationale for a research study (such as a thesis or dissertation).
- Your literature review will be written as a standalone paper
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Literature Review Outline
Section one:
The section entails the introduction
Section two:
The section entails the literature review on hand hygiene.
Section three:
The section entails details on methodology approach to be applied on the study.
Section four:
The section entails details on the sample selection for the study.
Section five:
The section entails details on the procedures to be followed during the study.
Section six
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Nosocomial infections
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Introduction
Infections acquired in a hospital or acute care setting related to the patient's original
ailment are known as nosocomial infections. Because of the link between healthcare quality and
nosocomial infection, infection control measures are now widely applied in every healthcare
facility. Since these facilities are responsible for guaranteeing people's health and well-being, it
is critical to successfully prevent the spread of infection that can be acquired in a hospital setting.
Hand hygiene is intended to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections (Monegro &
Hariharan Regunath, 2019). The hand hygiene of patients is just as vital as the hand hygiene of
healthcare staff. Hand washing should be done correctly to remove dangerous microorganisms
from the skin. Hand washing is the single most important and effective strategy to prevent and
manage cross-infection among healthcare workers. This study is essential to the healthcare field
since it compares the effectiveness of using hand washing and hand sanitizers by health
practitioners to minimize nosocomial infection among Med surge adults over 65 years.
Literature review
In the prevention of nosocomial infections, several measures can be put into place. The
primary measure identified to minimize the infections is hand washing. Medical practitioners are
expected to frequently wash their hands after attending to one patient since most encounter body
fluids that carry infections. In this study, I will look at hand washing to prevent nosocomial
infections compared to hand sanitizers.
According to Haque et al., (2020), the concept and importance of hand washing inpatient
care were first theorized in the early 19th century. He identifies proper hand hygiene to be the
least expensive method of minimizing the spread of infections. Farmani et al. (2019) added that
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patients in the Intensive care Unit (ICU) are at a greater risk of having the nosocomial infection.
He argues that health practitioners are the common channel of transmitting the infections and
thus recommends as the primary step to preventing the infections. In support of the importance
of hand washing Haque (2020) describe nosocomial infections as an indication of poor
compliance with hand washing hygiene. Unfortunately, most health practitioners are noncompliant to hand washing procedures, thus increasing the rate of nosocomial infections (Haque
et al., 2020). Healthcare personnel’s should set examples to their patients by exercising regular
hand washing to help reduce the spread of nosocomial infections.
According to Kampiatu and Cozean (2015), hand washing is recommended by the United
States Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which should take 1-2 minutes. However, they argue
that most health practitioners take less than 15 seconds, even with the available alcohol-based
sanitizers. Kampiatu and Cozean (2015) argue that traditional alcohol-based sanitizers do not
provide continuous protection against infections. According to them, hand sanitizers evaporate
and thus end the antimicrobial activity; hands can easily be contaminated once exposed to an
infected surface, leaving patients unprotected. For this reason, hand washing is more effective
compared to hand sanitizers. According to Haque et al., (2020) hand hygiene (HH) should be
embraced as an automatic behavior by both patients and the health care professionals. The
authors proposed that in most instances, the HealthCare workers risks distributing pathogenic
microorganisms to patients through their hands. To prevent this spread, effective hand washing
with soap and water was concluded as the best approach.
Methodology
To effectively conduct this study, I will use a combination of qualitative and quantitative
methods. For this review, our research question is; for adults over 65 years, does the use of hand
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washing by nurses on the med surge floor reduce the future risk of nosocomial infection
compared to hand sanitizer? A research study will be conducted in the hospital ICU. The project
will take 12 weeks and thus will commence on 1st September to 31st October. In this study, the
main requirements are the hand washing products and hand sanitizers, and of which most
hospitals are well equipped. Therefore, significant expenses will be on printing the questionnaire
to be filled by the staff so as to determine whether they are satisfied with the product. That is a
minor expense, and thus I can settle t...
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