Summative Assessment 1: Report: Report and Executive Summary Aim/Kaupapa Ko¯rero: Students will develop their understanding of how the Health and Disability Service Standard XXXXXXXXXXfor Infection...

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Infection Control Management
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Executive Summary
Infective organisms progress with passing time and persist to put forward new issues for
infection prevention as well as management in the health care sector. Among the chief
prevailing issue is the appearance and spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria, like
methicillin-resistant MRSA (Staphylococcus aureus) as well as VRE (vancomycin-resistant
enterococci). Moreover, other new issues have come up with the rise of contamination with
Clostridium difficile or ca
apenemases. Within healthcare segment, a high number of
individuals are cured in close vicinity to one another. They frequently go through intrusive
processes, face insertion of medical device and receive wide-spectrum immunosuppressive
therapies or antibiotics.
Such situations offer perfect prospects for adapting and spreading pathogenic, infectious
acteria. Yearly, infections related to health care take place in several individuals, making
healthcare linked contagions the highly widespread problem impacting patients within
hospitals. Few among such infections call for stronger as well as more medicines and might
lead to life-long disabilities or also death at times. Apart from noteworthy patient harm
esulting from healthcare related infections, these infections perk up patient usage of health
facilities. Infection prevention and control intends to trim down the growth of resilient
pathogens and reduce threat of spread via separation of the transfe
able organism or the
patient, and through adopting transmission-based defences and standard. Likewise, this
particular paper describes Standard 3.1 (Infection Control Management) of the Health and
Disability Service Standards (2008) and critically discusses the requirement and relevance of
this standard within the 500 bed hospital setting. It discusses the role of the infection
preventionist in the development and implementation of an infection control programme.
Lastly, examines the relevance of Standard 3.1 to the concept of clinical governance
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Introduction
To start with, infective organisms progress with passing time and persist to put forward new
issues for infection prevention as well as management in the health care sector. Likewise, this
particular paper describes Standard 3.1 (Infection Control Management) of the Health and
Disability Service Standards (2008) and critically discusses the requirement and relevance of
this standard within the 500 bed hospital setting. It discusses the role of the infection
preventionist in the development and implementation of an infection control programme.
Lastly, examines the relevance of Standard 3.1 to the concept of clinical governance
Standard 3.1 (Infection Control Management) of the Health and Disability Service
Standards (2008) and requirement and relevance of this standard within the 500 bed
hospital setting
Infective organisms progress with passing time and persist to put forward new issues for
infection prevention as well as management in the health care sector. Among the chief
prevailing issue is the appearance and spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria, like
methicillin-resistant MRSA (Staphylococcus aureus) as well as VRE (vancomycin-resistant
enterococci). Moreover, other new issues have come up with the rise of contamination with
Clostridium difficile or ca
apenemases. Within healthcare segment, a high number of
individuals are cured in close vicinity to one another. They frequently go through intrusive
processes, face insertion of medical device and receive wide-spectrum immunosuppressive
therapies or antibiotics. Such situations offer perfect prospects for adapting and spreading
pathogenic, infectious bacteria. Yearly, infections related to health care take place in several
individuals, making healthcare linked contagions the highly widespread problem impacting
patients within hospitals. Few among such infections call for stronger as well as more
medicines and might lead to life-long disabilities or also death at times.
Apart from noteworthy patient harm resulting from healthcare related infections, these
infections perk up patient usage of health facilities (Standards New Zealand, 2017). Infection
prevention and control intends to trim down the growth of resilient pathogens and reduce
threat of spread via separation of the transfe
able organism or the patient, and through
adopting transmission-based defences and standard. Nevertheless, just like there exists, no
one reason behind infection, there exists no one resolution to the issues posed through
healthcare related infections. This is where the role of clinical governance is linked with
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Standard 3.1. Effective infection control calls for several strategies across different spheres of
the healthcare framework and a cooperative strategy for effective execution (Standards New
Zealand, 2017). Such approaches take in hand hygiene, surveillance infection control and
enhancing the harmless and suitable application of antimicrobials via antimicrobial
stewardship. Moving ahead, governance and systems for infection prevention, control as well
as investigation, needs to be in line with appropriate documents.
Moving ahead, there exists a managed atmosphere that minimalizes the threat of infection to
individuals, service providers as well as visitors (Standards New Zealand, 2017). This should
e suitable to the scope and size of the provision. The criteria needed in case of 500 bed
hospital setting for achieving this result shall take in the organisation making sure (Standards
New Zealand, 2017):
 The accountability for infection control is properly stated and...