Hand hygiene in neonatal, pediatric and adult intensive care units

Abstract

Objective: To assess the health of a multimodal hand hygiene educational program for Neonatal, Pediatric and Adult health professionals. Method: This is a quasi-experimental research, of the time series type with a group, therefore, the same group was evaluated before and after an intervention. The collection of this study was carried out in three periods: (1) pre-intervention period, carried out in 2017, observing the ingestion of hand hygiene by health professionals and identifying the gel; (2) intervention, carried out during 2018, where the multimodal educational program was implemented; (3) post-intervention period, where a new investigation was carried out using the same methodology used in the first period of this research. Results: 640 opportunities were observed and 327 actions were observed, thus resulting in an overall adherence of 1.09%. The consumption of gel alcohol in 2018 had an average of 27.01 mL/patient-day within the units and in 2017 it was 43.13 mL/patient-day in the same period. Conclusion: Although the intervention helped professionals with doubts, it still proved not to be sufficient for the rates found in the pre-vention period, it can be suggested that educational measures will maintain the increase in the extension of hand hygiene to be routinely performed.