C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance Eviden

C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance    C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance  Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research  EBP Task 2  A1. Healthcare Problem  Despite hand hygiene being recognized as the single most important step in the prevention of hospital acquired infections (HAI), compliance among hospital staff remains low.  This not only impacts the patient's morbidity and mortality it also places the financial burden of these infections on the health care institution.    A2. Significance of Problem  Poor hand hygiene compliance is a significant healthcare problem not only the United States but globally as well.  Hospital acquired infections have an incidence rate of up to 10% and increase the affected patients mortality by 10-40%.  Hand hygiene is an easy and cost-effective measure to prevent HAIs (Rodriguez et al., 2015).  Unfortunately, studies have shown that hand hygiene compliance is less than 50% among healthcare workers (HCW) of varying professional categories (Patel, Engelbrecht, McDonald, Morris, & Smythe, 2016)   A3. Current Practice  Most hospitals have a hand hygiene policy including the facility where I am employed.  This policy requires a minimum of performing hand hygiene upon entering and exiting a patients room.  Even with a policy in place, compliance with in my own facility is poor.  I have seen physicians, nurses and health care techs enter a patient room with out either foaming in or washing their hands.  No specific education is allocated to hand hygiene and I believe t