What are Standard Precautions?
Standard precautions were previously called Universal Precautions.
They refer to a group of simple actions that should be undertaken
✔ every time,
✔ for every patient,
✔ in every healthcare setting.
By implementing standard precautions, these basic actions become MUST DO tasks, and ensure consistent, safe patient care.
Standard Precautions Audit software
Medical Audits have developed a package of audit tools specifically designed for ward based mobile auditing.
Audits are designed to collect data on healthcare worker’s knowledge and compliance with standard infection control precautions.
Data collected is fed directly into digital ward dashboards providing real-time compliance data
Medical Audits standard infection control precautions (SICPs) audit software can be used to monitor, assess and improve performance as well as to increase consistency of practice.
Some of the key features of these standard infection control precautions audit tools include:
- Evidences based practice
- Simple, easy to use, user interface
- Real time results for immediate feedback
- Trend reports
- Digital dashboards
Medical Audits standard precautions software system is based on best international practice
Our standard precautions audit tools include the evidence based practice recommendations from:
- National infection prevention and control manual (NIPCM) for England (NHS England Oct 2023)
- Infection Prevention and Control guidelines, National clinical guideline 30 (HSE, 2023)
- High impact interventions, NHS England, Dec 2022
- Health Protection and Surveillance Centre (HPSC) Ireland guidelines
- Global Strategy on Infection Prevention and Control (World Health Organisation, 2022)
- Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (Aug 2023)
- Joint Commission International (JCI) toolkits for invasive devices (2019)
This value package of 10 audit tools in one complete software system includes :
✔ Hand Hygiene audit tool
✔ Waste management audit tool
✔ Linen management audit tool
✔ Re-usable patient equipment audit tool
✔ Sharps audit tool
✔ PPE audit tool
✔ Environmental Hygiene audit tool
✔ Transmission based precautions audit tool
✔ Occupational exposure audit tool
✔ Respiratory hygiene audit tool