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INFECTION PREVENTION This chapter explains the importance of infection control at facilities, different components of infection control specific to facilities and how a mentor can actually apply the PDCA approach to set up or strengthen the infection prevention practices in a facility. Introduction and need for infection prevention practices Any person in the facility including its providers and clients along with their family members can be a source of infection. All objects that come in contact with any of them in the facility should be considered to be potentially infected and capable of transmission of infection. The most neglected service in a health care setting in India has poor infection control that lead to transmission of infections in the facility and community. The objectives of infection prevention practices are: To provide services to clients with high quality and safety To prevent post-procedure infections in clients To prevent infections in service providers To prevent...

MENTORING ACTIVITIES IN STRENGTHENING OF DELIVERY POINTS Introduction A comprehensive district strategy that aims at addressing the capacity gaps to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and equity in RMNCH+A services is needed in the district. It is essential that we build the capacity of the public sector facilities by understanding the critical service and supply gaps and charting a plan of action with clear time-line to address the gaps. Zooming in on the health system at the facility level, ensuring supply refers to distributing essential resources (HR, infrastructure, drugs and consumables required, etc.) for providing quality services according to the expected level (L1, L2, or L3) of a facility. Facility-level supply improvement consists of two approaches-strengthening and activation of facilities. Strengthening Strengthening refers to improving the availability of key services and resources such as required RMNCH+A services, trained HR, commodities and logistics etc. at curren...

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 MENTORING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE PROVIDER CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS You may remember that as an RMNCH+A nurse mentor you will have to use the PDCA approach at all levels of quality improvement in health facilities. During your mentoring visit you will mentor the staff/ providers to be clinically competent in those key aspects of labour, delivery, postpartum and newborn care that most significantly affect morbidity and mortality. Providers need to know what they can manage at a health facility and exactly how to do that.. They also need to know what they cannot manage at a health facility and when referral is necessary. The patient case sheet A very critical component of the mentoring programme is supporting the use of the patient case sheet. Mentors must have a thorough knowledge of the why and what' of the case sheet in order to explain it well to the health facility staff during the first visit. The patient case sheet is basically a step by step job aid that aid aims to help...

MENTORING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE SERVICES QUALITY OF NURSING A substantial amount of the mentors' time will be spent at the main CHC facility in the block. The main purpose of being in health facilities is to ensure the quality of services that encompasses both system-level issues and individual provider-level issues. At healthcare facilities, mentors should use the PDCA approach at two levels First at the health facility level mentors will help staff to improve service delivery by helping the health facility team to solve problems related to facility systems that hamper day to day functioning of the facility.  The mentor will encourage providers to understand that when they work together their collective strength helps to resolve certain problems. Second, at an individual provider level, the mentor's focus should be to improve clinical competencies.  This chapter describes how the mentors can use the PDCA approach and specific tools at the first of these levels - service quali...