Abstract
Objective
To strengthen clinicians’ infection control awareness and risk realisation by engaging them in scrutinising footage of their own infection control practices and enabling them to articulate challenges and design improvements.
Design and participants
Clinicians and patients from selected wards of 2 hospitals in western Sydney.
Main outcome measures
Evidence of risk realisation and new insights into infection control as articulated during video-reflexive feedback meetings.
Results
Frontline clinicians identified previously unrecognised infection risks in their own practices and in their team's practices. They also formulated safer ways of dealing with, for example, charts and patient transfers.
Conclusions
Video-reflexive ethnography enables frontline clinicians to identify infection risks and to design locally tailored solutions for existing risks and emerging ones.
To strengthen clinicians’ infection control awareness and risk realisation by engaging them in scrutinising footage of their own infection control practices and enabling them to articulate challenges and design improvements.
Design and participants
Clinicians and patients from selected wards of 2 hospitals in western Sydney.
Main outcome measures
Evidence of risk realisation and new insights into infection control as articulated during video-reflexive feedback meetings.
Results
Frontline clinicians identified previously unrecognised infection risks in their own practices and in their team's practices. They also formulated safer ways of dealing with, for example, charts and patient transfers.
Conclusions
Video-reflexive ethnography enables frontline clinicians to identify infection risks and to design locally tailored solutions for existing risks and emerging ones.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 157-162 |
| Journal | BMJ Innvovations |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2015 |