Problem: A clinic is short-staffed with two medical assistants covering for two doctors. The medical assistant performs a dressing change on a patient with an active staph infection. After completing the procedure, the medical assistant removes the gloves then immediately draws a COVID booster for a cancer patient in the room next door. The injection is administered without gloves. After documenting and monitoring the patient's response to the booster, the medical assistant moves to the next room to perform a venipuncture, dons gloves, and rips the index finger off of the left glove in order to feel for a vein. After the procedure, the medical assistant realizes they have not performed any hand washing or hand hygiene after caring for the last three patients. For your initial post, consider the scenario above and think of a time when you witnessed or were involved in a similar situation. Answer the questions below:
1. What are the consequences of improper hand hygiene to patient health and safety?
2. Share a time when you witnessed a similar situation. This may have happened at your current or former place of work. Need Assignment Help?
3. How did it make you feel? How did you handle it? Would you handle it differently if you could go back and do it again?