C493 Leadership Experience Task1 Leadership Experience Task 1 C493 A. 1. Hand Hygien

C493 Leadership Experience Task1  Leadership Experience  Task 1  C493  A.   1. Hand Hygiene    a. The current issue on my unit, and an issue that has been present since last year, is the lack of hand hygiene. This is extremely pertinent as hand hygiene is essential to providing adequate patient care. According to the CDC, about 1 in 25 patients acquires a health care-associated infection (HAI) due to poor hand hygiene during their hospital care, resulting in up to 722,000 infections a year. Of these, 75,000 patients die of their infections (Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings, 2018). Performing hand hygiene is considered to be the most important infection prevention measure; thus, to prevent contamination, good hand washing must be practiced. This is particularly important on my unit as I work on an Orthopedics floor with medical overflow. Because of the medical overflow, there is a higher chance of spreading an infection, especially to the orthopedic patient. On a typical day I have 5-6 patients and will constantly be in and out of each room touching the patient and various equipment. Without performing proper hand hygiene, my patients are exposed to many surrounding infections.   2  a. Currently, the hand hygiene compliance results on my unit from December 2017 to May 2018 are as follows:   December: 58.5%  January: 81.1%  February: 100%  March: 72.1%  April: 71.7%  May: 66%  The 6th month rolling total is 70.4%, putting my unit as the worst floor for hand hygiene compliance out of 27 units. In addition