Summary of Hand Hygiene teaching plan

The audience showed readiness to learn as indicated by active participation, positive attitude, and early attendance for the session. Moreover, the audience showed keen listening skills, and motivation. The learning theory used in this session was cognitivist, which suggests conscious thought, decision-making, conversation, and emotion. It focuses on cognitive development to ensure nurses develop the understanding and relevance of proper surgical hand antisepsis through lessons and training. The goal of training fellow nurses on hand antisepsis before performing surgery is to achieve longer lives that are of high-quality and free of preventable injury, diseases, premature death, and disabilities. Lastly, non-verbal communication used in the training presentation were verbal pose, gestures, and facial expressions. A song was also played midway, to relax the audience.

The training was successfully conducted. Epidemiological rationale for topic Medical practitioners, including physicians, and nurses participate in surgical procedures in the hospital theatre. Before performing these invasive surgical procedures, they routinely perform hand antisepsis so that microbes are eliminated completely from their hands and the risk of transferring the same to the surgical wounds are highly reduced. Another study suggests that SSIs cause healthcare-related infections, and a survey in 2006 show that about 8% of UK patients have these infections. According to NCCWCH (2008), approximately 14% of SSIs and about 5% of all patients had previous invasive surgery developed SSIs (National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health, 2008). According to this study, SSIs prevalence have been underestimated because most of these SSIs occur after patients have been released to go home.

SSIs have been shown to cause over a third of all after-operation deaths and most morbidity after surgery. However, according to Tanner et al (2016) SSIs range from minor complications to life-threatening conditions. Apart from nurses, other healthcare professionals such as medical interns, pharmacists, and doctors showed interest in learning this crucial topic, and they turned up in substantially large numbers to learn on hand antisepsis. The training took about 4 hours, which was divided into three sessions. The first session was all about introduction of the topic. During this session, pamphlets were given, and definition of terms and cases related to SSIs in the past were defined and described in detail. The reasons behind development of the teaching and training was given, and one of the reasons was that the current approach of antisepsis was not adopted well and cases of SSIs in the hospital were still high.

A break of 15 minutes was taken again and then the last session began. During this session, the audience were given the chance to ask related questions and the trainers responded to them accordingly. Many questions were asked, and clarifications made pertaining hand antisepsis. A short handout was given to the audience to evaluate feedback on the training and the audience were willing to provide their own self-answered feedback through writing. The medical practitioners agreed to adapt to the new hand antisepsis technique to reduce SSIs cases. Furthermore, povidone-iodine or chlorhexidine containing soaps that have been suggested for antisepsis should be used alternatingly. Guidance on how to use these new techniques should be available on the section of hand cleaning before entering the theatre, openly displayed on the wall.