Audit on Infection Control Practices Among Health Care Workers: Perspective by a Infection Prevention Nurse

Hospital Infection control is very essential for the safety andwellbeing of patients, hospital staffs and visitors of the hospital.It affects various Departments of the hospital and it also involvesproblems of quality risk management, clinical governance of healthand safety. Many factors stimulate infections among hospitalizedpatients – ‘decreased resistance among patients’; ‘increasing variationof medical procedures’ and ‘invasive techniques crafting potentialroutes of infection’; and ‘the transmission of drug-resistant bacteria’are packed among hospital populations’, where poor practice ininfection control may facilitate transmission. Audit means checkingactual practice against a standard; it should permit reporting ofnoncompliance or issues of concern by either healthcare workers(HCW) or the Infection Control Team (ICT). Providing results of theaudit to staff enables them to identify where improvement is needed.1Audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patientcare and outcomes through systematic review of care comparedwith explicit criteria and the subsequent implementation of change.