Infection Control/Hygiene Clinical Audit Ideas?

RE: Infection Control/Hygiene Clinical Audit Ideas?

stacey bullock — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:00:26 GMT

I highly recommend looking at The Bella Moss resources and doing the audit tool Veterinary Professionals | The Bella Moss Foundation

Also RCVS Knowledge Clinical audit - RCVS Knowledge

RE: Infection Control/Hygiene Clinical Audit Ideas?

Jo Brett — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:21:51 GMT

Uniforms and personal clothing. What are you are all wearing (cloths, shoes, nails, jewellery, hair), is there a risk of cross contamination between home (outside) and clinic environments on shoes and clothing. Are in clinic clothing's becoming contaminated to a level that may pose a risk? what are colleague movements throughout the day, in/out of wards with sick animals in to theatre or consults? What is the evidence to support your risk assessment?

Laundry. Are you mixing different types of laundry, animal (ward and theatre) with personnel clothing? What detergents are you using and why (consider environmental risks). What are the concentrations of detergents (are you using least amount to be effective?), laundry wash cycles? How are you drying laundry - consider use of heat v. sun light v. environmental impact and any cross contamination? Use of laundry baskets, are they cleaned, do you have different clean/dirty baskets?

RE: Infection Control/Hygiene Clinical Audit Ideas?

Kay Eminson — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:05:12 GMT

Do you carry out regular environmental C&S swabs? As this would provide you with easy data to audit, allowing you to have evidence to assess current SOPs and make improvements.

Brodie Davis highlighted a great number of areas you can look into, but with these you need to ask how you would audit these topics and some may be difficult to audit without standing over someone ensuring they are doing it to the SOP.

I think chemical dilutions is a good one - looking to ensure all your bottles are correctly labelled to ensure easy compliance, assessing the risk assessments are up to date, it would be difficult to assess whether they had been made to the correct dilution but if you had several bottles made up you could empty them to assess colour depth to help indicate if they're too strong (if you use a coloured product). This audit can help remind the team on the H&S importance of correctly diluting our cleaning chemicals.

The VNJ has an article on Infection control for practice standards by Sairéad Wild which has competency sheets and considerations in chemical use.

RE: Infection Control/Hygiene Clinical Audit Ideas?

Brodie Davis — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:58:41 GMT

Correct use of PPE

Kennel disinfection

Surgical room or instruments

Correct chemical dilutions

ET tubes

Isolation procedures