| Title: |
The patient experience of partnering with healthcare professionals for hand hygiene compliance: a systematic review of qualitative literature |
| Authors: |
Butenko, Samantha |
| Contributors: |
Lockwood, Craig; Joanna Briggs Institute |
| Publication Year: |
2016 |
| Collection: |
The University of Adelaide: Digital Library |
| Subject Terms: |
Hand hygiene; partnering; patients; consumers; health care professionals; nurses; doctors |
| Description: |
Background Healthcare associated infections pose a significant risk to patients in acute healthcare settings such as hospitals. Increasingly patients are encouraged to be active participants and to partner with healthcare professionals to positively influence their own safety and overall experience throughout their healthcare journey. Patient focused safety initiatives include the empowerment of patients to be active partners with healthcare professionals to influence the hand hygiene behaviors and compliance of the healthcare professionals providing care to them. Partnering between the patient and healthcare professional within the healthcare context can be considered a general concept involving the empowerment of patients to participate in their care. Terms used to describe patient partnering within healthcare vary and include patient participation, patient centeredness, patient empowerment and patient engagement. Although patients generally appear to have positive attitudes and intentions about engaging in their safety and partnering in the healthcare setting, their intentions and actual behaviors vary considerably. Patients appear less likely to engage in behaviors that require questioning of the perceived or real authority of healthcare professionals. A patient’s intention and subsequent act of partnering with healthcare professionals for hand hygiene compliance by the healthcare professional is influenced by complex internal, external and social factors as well as cultural, behavioral and systematic factors. Objectives To identify and synthesize the best available evidence in relation to the experiences of the patient partnering with healthcare professionals in hand hygiene compliance. To explore the question: What is the experience of partnership between healthcare professionals (doctors and nurses) and patients in relation to hand hygiene compliance in the acute adult hospital setting? Design A systematic review of qualitative evidence using the Joanna Briggs Institute metaaggregative approach to ... |
| Document Type: |
thesis |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2440/119153 |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2440/119153 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.C89DBF92 |
| Database: |
BASE |