A project of decreasing port-A infection rate for cancer patient

3^rd Euro Nursing & Medicare Summit

July 27-29, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Mei Hua Huang

China Medical University, China

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Cancer patients need to pay more attention on infection control due to the undergo chemotherapy. From January to December 2012, the infection rate was 3.2 � in our ward, higher than the hospital threshold 2.0 �. Analyzed the current situation found that the reasons were: (1) insufficient care knowledge among nurses; (2) lacked of in-service education and effective tools for health education; (3) did not have standardized procedure and monitoring sheet; (4) the rigid monitoring system; (5) lacked of Port-A technical teaching aids and standardized procedure video; and (6) inadequate home care knowledge of Port-A among patients. The improvement strategies included: (1) established the Port-A injection standard procedure; (2) produced a Port-A injection model; (3) created the injection technique educational films; (4) organized in-service training; (5) developed promotional posters and imaged health education leaflets; and (6) established port-A placement techniques OSCE assessment system. After the project, the Port-A infection rate was reduced from 3.2 � to 1.2 �. The result indicated that the implementation of the project can effectively reduce port-A infection rate, thus, improve the patient safety and clinical care quality

Biography :

Mei-Hua Huang has completed her master degree from Fooyin University School of Nursing in Taiwan (R.O.C).

Email: b1089213@yahoo.com.tw