NABH guidelines on OT air-conditioning: NABH HIC 2-J

The updated guidelines on OT design are available on NABH website and readers can refer to the following link to apprise themselves of the requirements.

http://qcin.org/nabh/documents/OperationTheatre/Operation-Theatre-Guidelines.pdf

Hope this is of use to the Quality professionals.

NABH Chapter 5 – Hospital Infection Control (HIC): Some references for making the Infection Control Manual

As part of NABH chapter HIC standard 2, there is a requirement for Infection Control Manual and the standard gives detailed guidelines on the components of the manual through its various objective elements. It also suggests CDC’s guidelines as good reference material for various infection control practices and areas.

Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has specific guidelines for each kind of high-risk area to prevent Healthcare-associated Infections, or HAIs. Get CDC’s definition for HAIs here: http://www.cdc.gov/hai/

Get all the information about CDC guidelines for Infection control by visiting the following page: http://bit.ly/OaRTqZ 

More specifically, CSSD related guidelines, as suggested in NABH HIC 2F, are available in the CDC guidelines for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008 at the following link: http://bit.ly/OQD64S

If you have time, you can also watch this 2 minute video in which Dr. Denise Cardo, Director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC, speaks about HAIs as a threat to Patient Safety and how we can respond to this challenge.

WHO 5 Moments: Some ideas for NABH Chapter 5 - Hospital Infection Control

While preparing for my training sessions on chapter 5 – Hospital Infection Control, I came across an interesting video on Youtube. The video has been prepared by DebMed Healthcare and covers the WHO ‘5 Moments’. The video focuses on Hand Hygiene and presents the idea in an interesting Rap where you will 5 boys and girls, apparently nurses, dance and enact various situations (5 Moments) where hand hygiene can prevent the spread of infection. Have a look at this short entertaining video!

Notice at 2:15 it is shown that the doctor doesn’t comply with the hand hygiene and the nurse stops him and sends him back to use the sanitizer.

While it may come as a cultural shock to Indian hospitals, the fact is that it is part of NABH compliance too. The latest NABH 3rd edition talks about Infection Prevention and Control. To prevent the infections from spreading, strict hand hygiene is a must. And I think it is a sensible organizational culture to have where each employee can demand compliance from every other employee.