Participatory approach to quality development in infection prevention and control (IPC) in Nigerian health facilities

• Main Authors: Ute Zocher, Chioma Dan-Nwafor, Disu Yahya, Okokon Ita Ita, Stefan Kloth, Tim Eckmanns, Karoline Laila Oberländer, Mohammad Saleh, Abiodun Ogunniyi, Tochi Joy Okwor, Joshua Obasanya, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Gabriele Poggensee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-06-01
• Series: Infection Prevention in Practice
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590088919300125

Summary: The development of an educational concept of a training programme for infection prevention and control (IPC) was seen as a key issue to successfully address the complexity of change processes of professional IPC routines in clinical procedures. Therefore, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Nigeria, and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany established an interdisciplinary project framework, involving knowledge and competences from different disciplines and professions like health professionals, epidemiologists and educators (MAURICE project). A multi-module training programme for health care workers to improve IPC standards was developed and implemented based on the participatory approach and a systemic view for organizational change. Keywords: Nigeria, Infection prevention and control (IPC), Training programme, Participatory approach, Systemic view, Inter- and transdisciplinary approach