Nurse survey exploring infection prevention in Irish hospitals in context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Researchers at Dublin City University School (DCU) of Nursing Psychotherapy and Community Health are conducting a Nurse Survey exploring infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in Irish public and private general hospitals in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Every day nurses are required to balance competing priorities to deliver both high quality and safe patient care. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented nurses and the Irish healthcare and hospital system with unprecedented and ongoing challenges particularly in the area of infection prevention and control (IPC). Because nurses are responsible for direct patient care they are tasked every day with managing and limiting the spread of infection while protecting patients in healthcare settings. However, inadequate staffing, time and resources mean that some aspects of patient care may be delayed or omitted. This phenomenon has been described in nursing research as implicitly rationed care, missed nursing care, or nursing care left undone.
Responding to the COVID 19 pandemic, researchers at DCU are considering if the concept of missed nursing care, or care left undone, extends to IPC practices. They are asking registered nurses to take part in a survey to help understand the factors that impact the provision of IPC in their workplaces and to explore nurses’ perceptions as to why this might be the case. Staff Nurses, IPC Nurses and Clinical Nurse Managers on general medical units, surgical units, critical care units or in the emergency department of any public or private general hospital in Ireland are being invited to participate.
This survey is designed to be completely anonymous and completing the questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes. No personal, ward or hospital details are requested as part of this research.
The Survey and further details relating to this research (including researchers’ contact information) can be accessed HERE