NRS 493 Topic 8 Assignment Benchmark - Written Capstone Project Change Proposal

Benchmark - Capstone Project Change Proposal Background Infectious and contagious diseases are the second most common cause of death, thus a global concern. Specifically, hospital-acquired infections act as a major source of mortality and morbidity. Based on the World Health Organization report, approximately 7% of patients in high-income economies are at risk of acquiring one type of hospital-acquired infection (Hague et al.,2020). In addition, about 1.7 million individuals develop hospital-acquired infections annually. The hospital-acquired infection becomes a burden to the patients and raises the cost and the length of hospital stays. Adequate hand hygiene is an effective solution to stopping the spread of hospital-acquired infections. However, it has been identified that healthcare workers fail to comply with the measure, leading to an increase in the spread of hospital-acquired infection (Sands et al.,2020). They consider hand hygiene a complex behavior influencing environmental and social factors. For instance, some argue that frequent hand washing affects the skin compared to hand disinfection. Therefore, there is a need to encourage healthcare workers to comply with low hand hygiene compliance rates. Research indicates that about 40 % of the rate of nosocomial infections has been reduced by compliance with hand disinfection (Agbana et al., 2020). Some diseases led by hospital-acquired infection include diarrhea and respiratory tract infection. Improper hand hygiene acts asa common risk for transmission of hospital-acquired infection.