Functional Strategies Management for Problem Solving Facing Infection Control Teams at Hospitals

Abstract

Background: Many problems facing of the infection control team, there was necessary to use a successful strategy to overcome these problems. Through using functional strategy management can be decreased the problems faced Infection Control Team (ICT) at Hospital. Aim of the study: Was to evaluate functional strategies management for problem solving facing infection control teams at Hospital. Design: A quasi-experimental study design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in 8 Governmental Hospitals at Benha City. Sample: A convenience sample of ICT members included 50 members. Tools: Structured interviewing questionnaire sheet: -consist of four parts: I): demographic characteristic of infection control team. II): problems can be faced infection control team. III): Infection control teams' knowledge regarding Functional Strategy Management (FSM). IV): Application of functional strategy to solve problem facing infection control team. Results: The study revealed that, 66.0 % of the studied ICT had poor total knowledge about Functional Strategy Management (FSM) pre application and then this percentage decreased to 6.0% post application. 30.0% of the studied ICT had applied FSM pre application and increased to 70.0% post application strategy. Conclusion: Utilization functional strategy application improved infection control team knowledge in solving ICT problems. Also, there was a positive correlation among ICT total knowledge and total FSM post application strategy. Recommendations: Continuous application of FSM to solve infection control team problems and improve knowledge and functional practices.