Effectiveness of Hand Hygiene Training by Kirkpatrick Model

The aim of this organisational development was to improve Hand Hygiene education and training compliance in Hospital by extension, improve hand hygiene compliance. Hand Hygiene is identified as the single most important intervention in reducing the transmission of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs). In 2009, The World Health Organization published comprehensive evidence-based guidelines on Hand Hygiene in healthcare, which introduced a standardized approach to Hand Hygiene practice; “The Five Moments for hand Hygiene”. These guidelines have been adopted by the hospital and core to our education and training programme. The model was used to guide this research. The Kirkpatrick model was employed to evaluate the hand hygiene education and training, effectiveness of training at the different levels was being evaluated through construct on the basis of literature review. For level the respondents are who had completed training 7 months earlier. The results indicated that reaction of the participants were positive for training, secondly they had applied skills and knowledge which they had learnt from training. However, advanced research is needed to asses the impact of applying hand hygiene on spread of infection in hospital patient through measuring HAIs rate in this hospital.