Evaluation of a visual tool co-developed for training hospital staff on the prevention and control of the spread of healthcare associated infections

Macdonald, Alastair; Macduff, Colin; Loudon, David; Wan, Susan

doi:10.1016/j.idh.2017.06.002

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“…This method used the simulation techniques to discuss possible futures with the hospital ward's various stakeholders, which worked well for the hospital. 15 To sum up, service design provides a creative approach to promote healthcare change through cooperative and participatory strategies that leads to creating experiences that are meaningful and appreciated and the needs of the patients or the healthcare consumers are met.…”

Section: Results and Analysismentioning

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Service design in the healthcare space with a special focus on non-clinical service departments: A synthesis and future directions

Vaz

Venkatesh

2021

Health Serv Manage Res

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Although there has been a tremendous change in the way diseases are diagnosed and treated, the ways in which health care delivery has been managed has seen very little change. Several academic studies have arisen in the area of service design, but an amalgamation of this research, especially in the area of healthcare services is not available. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the published research on service design in healthcare and accordingly identify the gaps and scope of future research. After analyzing the articles and reviewing the Service design in healthcare literature, the following are our main contributions: (i) clarification of the service design concept and the developments that appears in the literature review of service design in the healthcare sector; (ii) classification of the service design tools and techniques that are most commonly used in the healthcare sector; (iii) demonstration of the service design as the preponderant construct that is used as a tool and technique to improve quality and efficiency in the healthcare service.The resultant systematic review reveals a change in the type of research carried out, the service design tools used and a shift towards service design from using the co-design tool to other methods. The paper highlights the gaps in the very limited amount of empirical work in the non-clinical healthcare space and accordingly a model is recommended.

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Section: Results and Analysismentioning

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Service design in the healthcare space with a special focus on non-clinical service departments: A synthesis and future directions

Vaz

Venkatesh

2021

Health Serv Manage Res

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“…Our own follow-on work, VisionOn (see Macdonald et al 2017) has involved the development and evaluation of a prototype training tablet app for hospital staff, using interactive contextualised visuals rather than standard visualisation of data via graphs, charts and dashboards. To demonstrate different pathogen behaviour, dynamic visualisations of norovirus, C. difficile, and MRSA were developed in relation to location, survival and transmission within a virtual hospital ward model using evidencebased microbiological and staff behavioural data.…”

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“…As such the study suggests the possible value of a tool designed with active practitioner involvement to produce meaningful shared visualisations. In the process a number of conceptual and practical visualisation challenges were identified, such as the tension between "realistic" visual rendering and the need to minimise the "clutter" of a typical ward environment so as to foreground key information (Macdonald et al 2017). The VisionOn and Visinvis studies are also notable for including cleaning staff as key participants, crucial stakeholders that many studies, including those within health humanities (Crawford et al 2015), tend to neglect.…”

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confidence: 99%

Visualizing within health-care practice

Macduff¹

2020

The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities

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“…Like Macdonald and MacDuff () and Macdonald et al. (), the Mapping Microbes team created visualisations of non‐humans (as simulated pathogen) by fusing aesthetics, nursing care, and scientific knowledge (see Macduff et al., ); yet the politico‐aesthetic aimed to engage microbial citizenship practices, drawing on Haraway's () manifesto for multispecies living. Findings from interviews indicate we had some success.…”

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Mapping microbial stories: Creative microbial aesthetic and cross‐disciplinary intervention in understanding nurses’ infection prevention practices

Roe

Veal

Hurley

2019

Geography and Environment

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Consistent implementation of hand‐washing within the hospital environment remains a challenge in infection prevention (IP) procedures. IP is one of a number of measures to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A cross‐disciplinary team was assembled to experiment with different ways of visualising the microbial. The paper details a comparative experimental design where nurses (n = 2) performed a series of routine care procedures in a mock‐ward setting where traces of coloured ultra‐violet glow‐powders had been purposely placed, first with routine hand‐washing and second without routine hand‐washing. The results presented as a series of photos, video‐clips, ethnographic observations and nurse interviews explore nurse–microbial relations and the potential for affective and embodied encounters with microbial worlds to generate new insight in IP. We argue for creating unfamiliar aesthetics that engage the sensate as an intervention in established IP education. The aesthetic rendered invisible microbes visible through techno‐artistic practice. The performance term “devising” was used to analyse the cross‐disciplinary methodological process. Finally, we consider the potential for nurses to act as microbial citizens as they extend their care for the human to entail the need to care for the microbial, perhaps not to kill but to relocate the risky pathogen, as part of a commitment to multispecies living in a world with AMR.

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Evaluation of a visual tool co-developed for training hospital staff on the prevention and control of the spread of healthcare associated infections

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Service design in the healthcare space with a special focus on non-clinical service departments: A synthesis and future directions

Service design in the healthcare space with a special focus on non-clinical service departments: A synthesis and future directions

Visualizing within health-care practice

Mapping microbial stories: Creative microbial aesthetic and cross‐disciplinary intervention in understanding nurses’ infection prevention practices

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