英文摘要 |
Patients at the hematology-oncology ward (HOW) are at high risks of infection because of their compromised immunity resulting from chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation. In terms of hospital cleanliness, the satisfaction rate of the HOW was 77.5%, lower than the average (89%) of all inpatient wards at the hospital. This project aimed at improving the effectiveness of ward cleaning for inpatient safety. The poor performance could be attributed to four causes: (1)failure of implementing standard operating procedures for environmental cleanliness; (2) inadequate manpower resource under large workloads; (3) a lack of objective tools for assessing environmental cleanliness with immediate feedback; (4) suboptimal staffs training. Strategies of improvement included reducing equipment in the ward and tucking away all the cables and cords; updating and replacing cleaning appliances; establishing a multidisciplinary team to support care needs dynamically, utilizing fluorescent markers to regularly monitor cleaning effectiveness and provide immediate feedback ; and offering e-learning courses relevant to environment cleaning. With these strategies, the overall effectiveness of environmental cleaning improved, with a satisfaction rate of 88.0%, the final cleaning pass rate rose from 77.8% to 97.9%, and the standard operating procedure execution accuracy rate rose from 78.6% to 97.1%, they all reached the target values. |