Figure 1.
The table illustrates four key management approaches for infection prevention in healthcare. The first quadrant explains attentiveness to staff needs and environmental challenges, emphasising prioritisation, workload management, and adaptation to physical constraints. The second quadrant highlights cultivating a positive work climate through communication, openness, and team support to address peer influence and high turnover. The third quadrant focuses on providing resources for staff knowledge and understanding, including hygiene training and timely communication. The fourth quadrant stresses promoting personal responsibility for compliance, encouraging planning, structure, and self-management to ensure consistent infection-safe workflows.The figure illustrates the four themes (text in bold) generated from the study. Key aspects of both research question 1–the managers’ experiences regarding how working conditions influence nursing staff’s infection prevention behaviours (normal text) and research question 2 – strategies to promote infection prevention work among staff (text in italics) are presented under the name of each theme
Source: Authors’ own work