International Consultants' Training Course - GHDonline

Infection Control Assessment Exercises
21 February 2008
Background and Patient Flow
Date: 21 February 2008_____________________ Time: __________________
Location: Julia Molefhe Clinic ____________
Room number: ___________
Purpose of room: ________________________________________________________
General background information:
Number of patients
Number of suspect TB patients
Number of known TB patients
Number increasing, steady, decreasing?
Time from registration to:
Seeing Nurse
Seeing Doctor
Sputum collection
Sputum results
Preliminary diagnosis
Admission to TB ward or referral
Where do they wait?
Perceived risk
TB incidence among staff
Contact with patients
IC procedures and policies in place
Other . . . __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Observe path of patient:
Create flowchart of the path of patients in the admission ward (registration, vital signs,
waiting, exam, procedures, radiology, sputum collection, other procedures, etc.)
Flowchart path of patient:
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