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Visitor Noncompliance to Personal Protection Equipment
Student Name
College of Nursing, Resurrection University
NUR4642: Professional Role Transition
Teacher’s Name
April 10th, 2020
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Visitor Noncompliance to Personal Protection Equipment
Infection transmission is a continuing problem in healthcare centers. Precautions, such as
the use of personal protection equipment and handwashing, are set in place for both health care
staff and visitors to prevent the spread of infection when being near an individual with a
communicable disease; however, visitors of the patients may not always comply to these set
standards which puts not only their safety at risk, but the staff’s and other healthy members of
society.
Resurrection Medical Center have had multiple occurrences of visitors being non-
adherent to wearing personal protection equipment with patients on isolation precautions, which
may lead to an increase in the spread of communicable diseases. Isolation precautions may be
labeled either as contact, droplet, or airborne; regardless the type of isolation, each require both
staff and visitors to perform hand hygiene. With this issue being observed on multiple units by
nursing staff members of the float pool and the Director of Nursing, it is clear there may be a
high risk for infection transmission throughout the facility.
The goal of the project is to increase Resurrection Medical Centers visitor’s compliance
to the use of personal protection equipment in isolation rooms. This will decrease the risk of
hospital acquired infections and spread of communicable disease, increase patient satisfactory
rates, and properly adhere to both facility protocol and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention recommendations.
Literature Review of Problem
Most studies have been performed on the use of PPE with health care workers and have
not included visitors. There are varying reasons as to why visitors do not comply to wearing
Visitor Noncompliance to Personal Protection Equipment
Student Name
College of Nursing, Resurrection University
NUR4642: Professional Role Transition
Teacher’s Name
April 10th, 2020
, 2
Visitor Noncompliance to Personal Protection Equipment
Infection transmission is a continuing problem in healthcare centers. Precautions, such as
the use of personal protection equipment and handwashing, are set in place for both health care
staff and visitors to prevent the spread of infection when being near an individual with a
communicable disease; however, visitors of the patients may not always comply to these set
standards which puts not only their safety at risk, but the staff’s and other healthy members of
society.
Resurrection Medical Center have had multiple occurrences of visitors being non-
adherent to wearing personal protection equipment with patients on isolation precautions, which
may lead to an increase in the spread of communicable diseases. Isolation precautions may be
labeled either as contact, droplet, or airborne; regardless the type of isolation, each require both
staff and visitors to perform hand hygiene. With this issue being observed on multiple units by
nursing staff members of the float pool and the Director of Nursing, it is clear there may be a
high risk for infection transmission throughout the facility.
The goal of the project is to increase Resurrection Medical Centers visitor’s compliance
to the use of personal protection equipment in isolation rooms. This will decrease the risk of
hospital acquired infections and spread of communicable disease, increase patient satisfactory
rates, and properly adhere to both facility protocol and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention recommendations.
Literature Review of Problem
Most studies have been performed on the use of PPE with health care workers and have
not included visitors. There are varying reasons as to why visitors do not comply to wearing
