Implementing caregiver management measures in general hospitals to prevent the COVID‐19 pandemic

• Published in: Nursing open Vol. 10; no. 5; pp. 2983 - 2990
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaoman, Wang, Wei, Zhao, Xiaojing, Cheng, Haihui, Song, Yang, Song, Xinhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.05.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: 2019 novel coronavirus; Access control; Caregivers; COVID-19; Departments; Disease prevention; Disease transmission; Epidemics; facial recognition; general hospital; Health insurance; Hospitals; Hospitals, General; Humans; Identification documents; Infectious diseases; Inpatients; Nosocomial infections; Pandemics; Patients; Pneumonia; SARS-CoV-2; whole process management; China; caregivers; general hospital; inpatients; facial recognition; 2019 novel coronavirus; whole process management
• ISSN: 2054-1058; 2054-1058
• DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1542

Aim To summarize the whole process management measures for caregivers of inpatients in a non‐new coronavirus pneumonia designated hospital in China during the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic. The implementation of these measures is mainly to prevent the virus pandemic caused by crowd gathering. Design A quasi‐experimental study. Methods Novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control measures were implemented in the ‘pre‐hospital link, hospitalization link and discharge link’ for the whole process of the hospitalized patients’ caregivers. To evaluate the effects by time point inspection, the results were fed back using information technology for quality improvement. Results The results of three time point inspections indicated that the management quality of many projects improved continuously (p < 0.05). From January to June of 2021, 20 departments implemented a facial recognition information management system. The ratio of patients/caregivers admitted was 1:0.528~1:0.965; It was found that it is effective to implement the whole process management measures. The facial recognition system plays a key role in the comprehensive management of the caregivers.