Healthy Hospital Paper - Speech or Presentation Example

The results from this questionnaire will be used to improve the rate of infections at Healthy Hospital. With the aid of your participation, it would become much clear for me to take appropriate measures to reduce infections at Healthy Hospital. There are no risks attached to taking this survey and your participation in this survey as well as your responses will be kept confidential. The information extracted through this survey will not be shared with anyone outside Healthy Hospital. I hope that you will take five minutes out to complete this survey and return it.

Even if you choose not to participate you could still request a summary of findings. For any clarifications regarding this survey and to receive a summary of the findings please contact my research advisor through email. Sincerely, Director, Healthy Hospital. Questionnaire 1. Did you receive formal training in hand hygiene in the last three years? Yes No 2. Do you routinely use an alcohol based handrub for hand hygiene? Yes No 3. Which of the following is the main route of cross transmission of potentially harmful germs between patients in a health care facility?

(please choose one only) a. Unclean hands of health care workers b. Air circulating in the hospital c. Patient’s exposure to colonised surfaces (on beds, tables, floors etc.) d. Sharing non invasive objects (like stethoscopes, pressure cuffs etc.) between patients 4. What is the most frequent source of germs responsible for health care associated infections? (please choose one only) a. The hospital’s water system b. The hospital air c. Germs already present on or within the patient d. Hospital environment (surfaces) 5.

What hand hygiene action(s) prevent the transmission of germs to the patient? 6. What hand hygiene action(s) prevent the transmission of germs to the health care worker? 7. How long do you apply alcohol based handrub on your hands? 8. Do you wear jewellery to work? 9. Do you use artificial nails at work? 10. How often do you use a hand cream? 11. If faced with a large workload, how careful are you about hand hygiene? 12. Do you play close attention to how you could carry infections from a patient and if so, how?

Survey Distribution Method There are a number of different methods to distribute and collect surveys but the method causing the least inconvenience to the staff supervisors must be chosen. Filing out surveys is not part of the job description of staff supervisors so their cooperation is essential to taking this research forward. Moreover staff supervisors may often have their hands full with problems of one kind or the other so the survey method should be convenient and non intrusive (Survey Bounty, 2012).

Possibly the best method to deliver such a survey would be on the internet with the survey being introduced by email. The email could serve similar to the cover letter and could contain the link to the actual online survey. All the staff supervisor would need to do is to click on the link to go to the survey online. Each email would be sent to a unique supervisor so the link in the email could be configured to hide the identities or to reveal the identities of each individual supervisor. Moreover as all staff supervisors are connected to the internet so it would be easy for them to simply click a link and get a survey done.

A number of free and paid services are available online to create surveys such as Survey Monkey, Free Online Surveys, Kwik Surveys etc. Another large advantage of using an online survey is