Question

There are 8 standards listed by the National Safety and Quality Health Standards (NSQHS). How does Standard 3, Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infection, relate to medication administration in Australia?

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Answer 1

There are 8 standards listed by the National safety and Quality of health standards ( NSQHS) .How does standard 3 ,preventing and controlling health Care - associated infection,relate to medication administration in Australia?

NSQHS 8 standards are,

1. Governance address the following areas.

2. Partnering with consumer.

3.Preventing and controlling health Care associated infections .

4. Medication safety.

5. Patient identification and procedure matching.

6. Clinical Handover.

7. Blood and blood products.

8. Preventing and managing pressure injuries.

* standard preventing and controlling health care associated infections.

The intention of standard 3 is to minimize the risk for patient in a acquiring preventable infections and to enable the effective management of infections when they occur by using evidence- based strategies.

At least the half of health care associated infections are thought to be preventable .astralia and overseas studies have shown that mechanisms exit to reduce the rate of infections caused by healthcare.infection prevention and controlling practice aims to reduce the development of resistant infectious agents and minimize risk of transmission through isolation of patients with infectious agents. However just as there is no single cause of infection. There is no single solution to preventing infections. Successful infection prevention and control practice requires a range of strategies across the healthcare system.

The aim of this guide is to assist with the implementation of standard 3 the guides provide examples that can be used to demonstrate evidence that the criteria have been met. It is likely that implementation strategies will be tailored to reflect the complexity of services offerd and the risk associated with the delivery of those services.

* while all infection prevention and control programs have essential elements that must be considerd .it is expected programs will be tailored to reflect the local context and risk.

* Regardless of the size or type of health service organisation,the sucess of implementation of the standard depends on clinicians and executive leader working together.

criteria to achieve the preventing and controlling health Care associated infections standards;

* Governance and systems for infection prevention, control and surveillance;

Effective governance and management system for health Care associated infections are implemented and maintained.

* infection prevention and control strategies;

Strategies for the prevention and control of health Care associated infections are developed and implemented.

* managing patient's with infections or colonisations;

Patient presenting with or acquiring an infection or colonisation during their care are identified promptly and receive the necessary management and treatment.

* Antimicrobial stewardship;

Safe and appropriate antimicrobial prescribing is a strategic goal of the clinical governance system.

* cleaning and disinfection and sterlisation;

Health Care facilities and the associated environment are clean and hygenic.Reprocessing of equipment and instrumentation meets current best practice guidelines.

* communicating with patients and carers;

Information of health Care associated infections is provided to patients,carer's,consumers and services providers.

What are the medication administration;

1. Right patient

2. Right medication.

3. Right dose.

4. Right time.

5 .Right route.

6. Right documentation.

Further more nurses are also urged to do the three checks ; checking the MAR ,checking while drawing up medication and checking again at bedside.it is also important to check for allergies as well before administration.

* ASAP mean ;

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