Recommended Practices for the Assessment of Isolation Practices for Tuberculosis Patients in Acute Hospital
Tinong, Ernestine (2017)
Tinong, Ernestine
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017112918768
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017112918768
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The main objective of this development project was to affect and improve infection prevention and isolation practices for tuberculosis patients in line with national and international legislative guidelines. Infection prevention of health related diseases is an important component in healthcare. Effective infection prevention practices are implemented in order to combat the spread of diseases. Infectious diseases like tuberculosis requires the emphasis on increase awareness and knowledge about infection prevention and isolation both to Health Care Professionals (HCPs) and patients. The aim of the developmental thesis was to create recommended practices for isolation of tuberculosis patients in acute hospitals. An integrative literature research was carried out to answer the research objectives which were: 1)To create recommended isolation practices for tuberculosis patient in acute hospitals. 2) Introduce a tool for assessing the implementation of these practices.
An integrative literature search was used for this thesis project. The literature for this development project was obtained from digital sources, journals, articles, as well as manual pages of books, and other texts that were used to obtain relevant materials. The chosen literature dealt with infection prevention and isolation practices for tuberculosis patients. In this development project, recommended practices were created on isolation practices to prevent airborne transmission of tuberculosis.
An assessment tool was developed and introduced for the implementation of isolation practices in acute hospital. The applied and simplified recommendation formats of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses ( AORN) 2013 that was used in framing the assessment tool, comprises of 45 questions. The scale range of 4- point Likert-scale responses strongly agree/agree/disagree/strongly disagree were used, for acceptance to tuberculosis isolation practices by nurses on both international and national recommendations.
The recommended practices were constructed using the criteria for creating recommendations by World Health Organization (WHO) supported by the results from the evidence research. A total of 24 recommended practices were developed. The purpose of recommended practices is to exploit good evidence-based data in nursing, involving specific nursing action of scientific display of which practices can be updated in future. The recommended practices are from evidence research divided into three parts; establishment of isolation of acute tuberculosis patients, maintenance of isolation of acute tuberculosis patients and discharge of isolation of acute tuberculosis patients.
An integrative literature search was used for this thesis project. The literature for this development project was obtained from digital sources, journals, articles, as well as manual pages of books, and other texts that were used to obtain relevant materials. The chosen literature dealt with infection prevention and isolation practices for tuberculosis patients. In this development project, recommended practices were created on isolation practices to prevent airborne transmission of tuberculosis.
An assessment tool was developed and introduced for the implementation of isolation practices in acute hospital. The applied and simplified recommendation formats of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses ( AORN) 2013 that was used in framing the assessment tool, comprises of 45 questions. The scale range of 4- point Likert-scale responses strongly agree/agree/disagree/strongly disagree were used, for acceptance to tuberculosis isolation practices by nurses on both international and national recommendations.
The recommended practices were constructed using the criteria for creating recommendations by World Health Organization (WHO) supported by the results from the evidence research. A total of 24 recommended practices were developed. The purpose of recommended practices is to exploit good evidence-based data in nursing, involving specific nursing action of scientific display of which practices can be updated in future. The recommended practices are from evidence research divided into three parts; establishment of isolation of acute tuberculosis patients, maintenance of isolation of acute tuberculosis patients and discharge of isolation of acute tuberculosis patients.