Abstract
The primary objective of this study is to assess the employee awareness on the hospitalacquired infection control in Lifeline Multi-Speciality Hospital, Chennai. The secondary objectives are to analyze the awareness of employees on the importance of barriers techniques like hand washing, wearing of gloves, wear of mask, eye protection, wearing of gown and to evaluate the knowledge of isolation of infected patients. This study also aims to assess the
method of sterilizing the equipments which are used for patients in Lifeline Multi-Speciality Hospital and to understand the most preferred method among the nurses for self protection from hospital acquired infections Medical clinic – Acquired Infection have been found to influence between 5-10 percent of emergency clinic patients and the changing conveyance of medicinal services administrations is probably going to affect further on the nature and cost of HAI. From one viewpoint, the expanding employments of same day medical procedure the pattern for shorter lengths of clinic pathogens and obtrusive gadgets. So this investigation did to improve the information level among the staffs and the executives representatives.
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