Fourth-year science student at the University of Western Ontario have to give to the manager of infection prevention and control recommendations to improve staff compliance with hand hygiene requirements of the medical and support staff at London Health Sciences Centre and the Ministry of Health and long-Term Care. In Ontario, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Initiative has been implemented under the title "Just wash your hands" to improve hand cleaning prices, which will directly affect the number of infections acquired while patients are in the hospital. The task is complicated by the large number of employees working at LHSC and many different groups of employees, ranging from doctors to cleaning staff. Manual cleaning procedure must also be followed by patients' families and friends who visit. In addition, workplace sub-cultures have historically not enforced compliance with discipline. In essence, the challenge is to change the behavior of large groups of people in different roles. Students should understand that, as publicly funded health care in Ontario, any plan of action to improve compliance with hand cleaning should be justified financially, and is sold at a reasonable price. "Hide
by Elizabeth M. Grasby, house of David Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 7 pages. Publication Date: November 8, 2012. Prod. #: W12302-PDF-ENG
