Survey of prevalence of allocation of infection control professionals and their position competence in secondary,tertiary traditional Chinese medicine institutions of Beijing
10.11816/cn.ni.2025-250160
- VernacularTitle:北京市二、三级中医医疗机构感控专职人员配备与胜任力现况调查
- Author:
Zilong ZHAO
1
;
Cuizhen ZHANG
;
Haiyan MA
;
Bing ZHAO
;
Yinghong WU
Author Information
1. 中国中医科学院西苑医院医院感染管理办公室,北京 100091
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Hospital infection management;
Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital;
Infection control professional;
Bed ratio;
Prevalence survey
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
2025;35(17):2691-2695
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of infection control departments setting,allocation of in-fection control professionals and their position competence in the secondary,tertiary traditional Chinese medi-cine institutions of Beijing.METHODS The questionnaire survey was conducted for all of the secondary and tertiary traditional Chinese medicine institutions in Beijing by Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Infection Man-agement Quality Control Center from Feb.17,2023 to Apr.11,2023.The content of the survey involved the in-formation of the hospitals,setting information of infection control departments and allocation of infection control professionals.RESULTS Totally 59 traditional Chines medicine medical institutions were involved in the survey,35(59.32％)were tertiary hospitals.The median of opened beds was 331(155,479)in the first quarter of 2023.The median of equipped infection control professionals was 4(3,5).The number of infection control professional e-quipped in 67.80％of the medical institutions conformed to requirements of"Notice regarding to further strength-en the management of infection control professionals allocation in medical institutions"released by The Joint Pre-vention and Control Mechanism of the State Council for the Response to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epi-demic in Aug.2021,with the ratio of infection control professionals to beds 1∶94.20.The principals in charge of the infection control department who had the qualifications for senior professional and technical position and en-gaged in infection control for more than 5 years accounted for 20.00％.Among the infection control professionals,nurses accounted for 49.17％,doctors 41.67％,other professionals 9.17％.CONCLUSIONS There is relatively adequate quantity of the infection control professional equipped in the secondary and tertia-ry medical institutions of Beijing,however,the principals in charge of the infection control department who had the qualifications for senior professional and technical position and engaged in infection control for more than 5 years are very scarce.It is necessary to further optimize the structure of the infection control professionals.
