Monitoring Tools for Compliance Plans

COMPLIANCE PLANS 4

Compliance Plans

Weltee Wolo

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on April 17, 2017, Nichole Crais’s

Regulation and Compliance in Healthcare H340/HSA3422 course

Compliance Plans

A compliance plan could be described as a set of guidelines drafted to act as guidance for facilities specialized in nursing, to continue with the positive services offered with the sector and thus encouraging a level of higher lawful and ethical conduct, all the way through the whole industry of health care. In the developing of a compliance plan, the management should ensure that all the elements are considered to have an effective plan. Compliance violations concerned with nursing led to several management systems to coming up with compliance plans. The effectiveness of these compliance plans depends on how clear the management indicate and elaborate the impact concepts.

Clinical staff members are not washing their hands between patients

The issue of nurses washing their hand between patients has been a compliance problem dating back centuries ago. The main idea of washing hands is to reduce the infection risks. Some agents have been suggested by pharmacists to be used as hand cleansers, and the most common one is the liquid chlorine solutions, which as antiseptics and disinfectants.

Cleaning of hands between patients requires key issues of compliance this is because the hand is what most individuals in the nursing practices that work with, and as individual moves from on patient to another, the chances of spreading infections is high. Developing disease by patients at the hospital could be through surgical wound. That is a nurse could be treating a surgical wound and patient, and without washing his or her hands, the individuals treat another patient. Blood is the fluid that contains different kind of pathogens that could be easily spread from one person to another. Therefore, with clean hands before attending to different patients would reduce the risk of infection is the main reason one would recommend the preparation of a compliance plan for the nursing sector (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 2006).

Employees are not knowledgeable in the use of fire extinguishers

Fire emergency in the workplace is one of the common issues that affect the workplace in a major way. Most of the reasons that fire incidents are catastrophic in workplaces are that fire extinguishers in building premises are placed with ideas to improve safety concerning the fire. It is always considered that with trained occupants on how to use fire extinguishers, fire safety would be sufficient. Fire catastrophes are considered to cause major disasters, regarding property destruction or also in some cases death, which risks employees’ lives. This is the main reason why employees need to be well knowledgeable about using fire extinguishers and is considered as a compliance issue.

The main reason that a compliance plan is needed in such a case is that it is required by law for workers to have information concerning how to extinguish a fire in the event of fire incidence; it is some emergency plan. Being trained knowledgeable with fire extinguishers would prevent injuries and property damage. Lastly, it would give employees assurance of being safe in places of work (United States Department of Labor, n.d).

References

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. (2006). HAND HYGIENE POLICY. Retrieved from https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.29490!/file/HandHygienePolicy.pdf

United States Department of Labor. (n.d). Occupational Safety & Health Admistartion. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/html/faq-various.html