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sile creedon

Lecturer University College Cork
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Healthcare workers' hand decontamination practices: compliance with recommended guidelines

SA Creedon - Journal of advanced nursing, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aim. This paper reports a study of healthcare workers' handwashing/hand hygiene practices
from a behavioural perspective. Background. Hospital acquired infection poses a very real …

Systematic qualitative literature review of health care workers' compliance with hand hygiene guidelines

MP Smiddy, R O'Connell, SA Creedon - American journal of infection …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Acquisition of a health care–associated infection is a substantial risk to patient
safety. When health care workers comply with hand hygiene guidelines, it reduces this risk …

The Hawthorne effect on adherence to hand hygiene in patient care

E Purssell, N Drey, J Chudleigh, S Creedon… - Journal of Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous studies demonstrate that the Hawthorne effect (behaviour change caused by
awareness of being observed) increases health workers' hand hygiene adherence but it is …

Hand hygiene compliance: exploring variations in practice between hospitals.

SA Creedon - Nursing times, 2008 - europepmc.org
Background The issue of'centre'or'hospital'as an independent variable has not been studied
extensively in healthcare workers' hand-hygiene practices. Aim To investigate healthcare …

Patient involvement in the implementation of infection prevention and control guidelines and associated interventions: a scoping review

HF Agreli, M Murphy, S Creedon, CN Bhuachalla… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To explore patient involvement in the implementation of infection prevention and
control (IPC) guidelines and associated interventions. Design Scoping review. Methods A …

Health care workers' hand decontamination practices: an Irish study

SA Creedon - Clinical Nursing Research, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
The primary purpose of this quasi-experimental research is to observe health care workers'
compliance with hand-hygiene guidelines during patient care in an intensive care unit in …

Ethnographic study using Normalization Process Theory to understand the implementation process of infection prevention and control guidelines in Ireland

H Agreli, F Barry, A Burton, S Creedon, J Drennan… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The aim of this study was to explore how infection prevention and control (IPC)
guidelines are used and understood by healthcare professionals, patients and families …

Infection control: behavioural issues for healthcare workers

SA Creedon - Clinical Governance: An International Journal, 2006 - emerald.com
The purpose of this research is to explore healthcare workers' infection control practices
from a behavioural viewpoint. Major behavioural theories are explored. Findings from a …

Leadership perspective on the implementation of guidelines on healthcare-associated infections

J Hegarty, S Murphy, S Creedon, T Wills, E Savage… - BMJ Leader, 2019 - cora.ucc.ie
Background: Leadership is a key component for infection prevention and control and plays
an important role in the implementation of guidelines on healthcare-associated infections. A …

Acute surgical wound‐dressing procedure: Description of the steps involved in the development and validation of an observational metric

J Hegarty, V Howson, T Wills… - International wound …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to develop an observational metric that could be used to assess
the performance of a practitioner in completing an acute surgical wound‐dressing procedure …