Global Health Nursing & Midwifery
TB infection prevention and control experiences of South African nurses - a phenomenological study
This piece by Dagmar Sissolak, Frederick Marais, and Shaheen Mehtar was just published in BMC Public Health (http://www.ghdonline.org/ic/resource/tb-infection-prevention-and-control-expe...).
In their conclusion, authors say:
“The absence of nurses’ voices constrains the quality and quantity of human resources for TB control and care.”
and
“Healthcare system inadequacy was the major influence on TB-IPC. IPC provision and practices, TB training for staff and patients, and cross-cultural communication were perceived by nurses to be suboptimal at this large hospital and could increase the risk of nosocomial transmission. The first step should be the implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive contextually appropriate TB-IPC policy with the setting and auditing of standards for appropriate IPC provision and practice across all wards.”
Thoughts? Thank you
Toyin Adeleke
I commend the efforts of authors for this relevant and resourceful article.I am very much interested in the healthcare system inadequacy identified as a major influence on TB-IPC among health workers. It will be interesting to unpack such inadequacies to reveal the 'nature' of systems support given to clinic-based TB infection control.
No doubt,there is need to contextualize TB-IPC guidelines especially in health settings with limited resources.Subsequently, it will be useful to elicit the opinion of health workers on how to contextualise TB-IPC policies
9:32 AM, 20 Jun 2011 | Permalink