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Reflection question: This reading discusses low compliance with IPAC practices by health care providers. Have you always followed IPAC practices in your workplace? What would you recommend at your current or a former workplace to ensure or increase compliance with IPAC practices?

[Arlene]

Have you always followed IPAC practices in your workplace?

Like most- if not all – healthcare workers, I have “missed” IPAC practices at least once in my practice for several reasons and due to many factors.

What would you recommend at your current or a former workplace to ensure or increase compliance with IPAC practices?

– Consider staff input regarding selection of products (ABHR, PPE) to increase comfort (skin breakdown with gloves, risk for skin irritation with mask use, impaired skin integrity with frequency of ABHR)
– Staff input regarding design and improvement of hospitals and ward layout (Limited working space; placement of sanitizer/gloves/PPE)
– Safer nurse-patient ratios
– Implementation of effective zero-tolerance violence policies
– Staff input regarding IPAC policies customized to specialized patient care areas (IDEA Framework).

[Carla-Jane]

This is a good recommendation. If implemented it can reduce break in IPAC compliance.

[Carla-Jane]

I would consider myself a person who is still developing and still applying IPAC principles in my practice, and there are times where i have missed it due to one factor or the other.

Based off what i have learnt from this module i would recommend to my workplace the following strategies:
1. Ongoing and continuous education and training: Regular IPAC refreshers, simulations, and competency reviews help keep best practices top of mind.
Using real-case examples of outbreaks or adverse outcomes can reinforce why compliance matters.
2. Visual reminder and cues: Clear signage, posters near hand hygiene stations, and reminders at the point of care support consistent behavior.
3. Supportive workplace culture
4. Accessibility to adequate resources.

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