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Volume 5, Issue 7 (Suppl) J Infect Dis Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2332-0877 Infection Prevention 2017
December 14-15, 2017
December 14-15, 2017 | Rome, Italy
13th World Congress on
INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Infection prevention control and patient safety culture within hospital isolation settings
Julian Hunt and John Gammon
Swansea University, UK
Background: Infections present a very real risk of harm and sometimes death within and outside the healthcare. In recent
years, there have been high profile successes in infection prevention and control, such as the dramatic reductions in MRSA
bloodstream infections (which is viewed as one proxy indicator of overall harm) and Clostridium difficile in the UK (Health
Protection Agency, 2013; Public Health Wales, 2012). However, healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) continue to occur
and continue to present a risk to users of healthcare. The present study describes the ways in which engagement of health
workers with infection prevention control strategies and principles shape and inform organizational patient safety culture
within isolation in surgical, medical and admission hospital settings; and vice-versa.
ResearchMethods: The study adopts a mixed-methods design incorporating quantitative data utilising the Manchester Patient
Safety Framework (MaPSaF). MaPSaF assists us in seeing the levels of patient safety culture maturity in isolation settings at
four district general hospitals, in one health board in Wales, UK. These data were supplemented by ethnographic case studies,
involving qualitative semi-structured interviews and periods of observation on hospital wards, thus providing a more in-
depth understanding of process, experience and outcomes, from the perspectives of health workers, isolated patients and their
significant others.
Conclusion: All health workers should take ownership and responsibility for IPC. This study offers new understandings of the
meaning of ownership for health workers; of the ways in which IPC is promoted, of how IPC teams operate as new challenges
arise, how their effectiveness is assessed and of the positioning of IPC within the broader context of organisational patient
safety culture, within hospital isolation settings.
Biography
Hunt is a sociologist with particular interest in ethnographic and participatory research methods. He previously worked on the Welsh Assembly Government’s
Sustainable Health Action Research Programme (SHARP), an action research initiative that focused on health inequalities and community health development. He
has combined this with a keen interest in historical sociology and the impact of class and place upon social, cultural and economic life. Dr Hunt has experience of
working with quantitative research methods and analysis.
Julian Hunt et al., J Infect Dis Ther 2017, 5:7(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-035