Authors (including presenting author) :
YIP WL, TUNG MK, LEUNG YK
Affiliation :
Administrative Services Division, Kwong Wah Hospital
Introduction :
During the Pandemic of Infectious disease, Environmental Services (EVS) is the key to break the chain of infection in HealthCare Institutions. Challenges in terms of surging up of workload (tightened standard) and complexity (increased active infectious cases admission) incurred during infectious disease pandemic prompted the significance of Environmental Hygiene assurance.
Objectives :
- To let the supervisor to know the level of Environmental Services in clinical area.
- To check the performance of individual staff and converting the result into motivation & incentive of better performance.
- To improve staff awareness of level of Environmental Services
- To facilitate training and improvement plan by supervisors to up keep the level of Environmental Services
Methodology :
The UV Germ test was first launched on 1 April 2014 as an infection control measures by Florescent Test Agent (UV Spray or UV swab) to designated spots to monitor the hygienically check surfaced are being cleaned in accordance with the ICN directions. The application of UV Tests was effective to reflect the overall level of Environmental Services. However, the conventional method of test (multi-spots for entire ward at one go) may not be effective in identify the potential Area for Improvement and targeted Training to be conducted.
The test had been slightly modified into number of sessions and divided according to the service scope of respective posts to reflect the performance by individual/group of posts. The performance is now down to posts and being considered in the SDR rating. Supervisor can now target the staff with room for improvement and delivery target training and supervision for long term improvement of overall Environmental Services.
Result & Outcome :
After the application of modified UV test methodology, the overall performance of Environmental Services had been gradually improved from 76% in 2019 to 89% by 4Q 2020.
