Clinical risk management (CRM) improves the quality and safe delivery of healthcare by introducing systems that identify and prevent circumstances that put patients at risk of harm. The nurse’s role...

Clinical risk management (CRM) improves the quality and safe delivery of healthcare by introducing systems that identify and prevent circumstances that put patients at risk of harm. The nurse’s role and knowledge in clinical risk management is crucial to help identify potential risks to the patient and the healthcare setting.  The purpose of this assessment task is to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the nurse’s leadership role in relation to clinical risk management and of the Australian Commission for Quality and Safety in HealthCare’s National Standards.
Assignment question: The Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) has identified that hand hygiene compliance amongst staff on your ward has decreased over the past three months.  As a Registered Nurse working on the ward, the NUM has asked you to develop two (2) strategies that could be implemented to improve hand hygiene compliance.   For this assessment task you are required to: • Identify two (2) key strategies from the literature for improving hand hygiene compliance, discuss how these strategies will increase compliance; and how these strategies relate to the National Standards. • Critically discuss the implications for professional nursing practice in implementing the identified strategies