Assignment: Infection Control

Infection control refers to policies and procedures which are used to minimize the risk of spreading infections, especially in hospitals, community and human or animal health care facilities. Nosocomial infection is infections contracted in hospital. It usually occurs in approximately 5% of all patients in hospital. There are many common reasons in nosocomial infections, one of which is weakened immune system of hospital patients which makes them more susceptible to infections and also caused either by the patient's diseases or by treatments given to the patient. Second, while introducing equipments during medical procedure can also risk of infections. Topic for search strategy to obtain literature/evidence was Infection prevention and control in clinical practice. Information for this literature search was gathered using the university digital library which gave access to electronic journals. Key terms used were infection control, qualitative research, quantitative research, research sampling methods and data collection methods. Textbooks to research methodology were obtained from university library and relevant website of university and further information was gathered from lectures reference recommended by other articles.
The qualitative study was conducted by Chia-Jung et al (2009) using the article of “Taiwanese nursing student’s knowledge, application and confidence with standards and additional precaution in infection control” aimed was too point on the nursing students' capacity to handle standard and additional infection control precautions in terms of their knowledge, application skills and confidence. The qualitative study by Chia-Jung et al (2009) was conducted between the Taiwanese nursing student’s knowledge, application and confidence with precaution in infection control. All the participants were recruited from University of Taiwan therefore they were familiar with the environment where the study was being conducted. The study had included about