Keeping our staff safe (preventing acquisition of blood borne viruses) – Reducing needle-stick injuries in healthcare workers

摘要

Patient participation is increasingly recognised as a crucialcomponent of successful infection prevention and control (IPC). However,limited clinician-patient communication about IPC and healthcare associ-ated infections means that patients may have inadequate understandings oftransmission, and varying understandings of IPC strategies. Some clinicianscan find these conversations with patients challenging. This paper presentsfindings from a study aimed at improving clinician-patient communicationaround the screening, identification of multi-drug resistant organism (MRO)carriage and its implications, with a broader aim of increasing patientinvolvement in IPC.