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Hand hygiene protects both healthcare personnel and patients. Hand hygiene means cleaning your hands with: Handwashing with water and soap (e.g., plain soap or with an antiseptic). Antiseptic hand rub (alcohol-based foam or gel hand sanitizer). Surgical hand antisepsis.
Key points. Patients in healthcare settings are at risk of getting infections while receiving treatment for other conditions. Cleaning your hands can prevent the spread of germs, including those that are resistant to antibiotics, and protects healthcare personnel and patients.
Hand hygiene is one of the most important interventions to prevent the transmission of microorganisms on the hands of healthcare personnel. Proper hand hygiene removes those microbes and prevents exposure to patients during care delivery.
Hand care. • Take care of your hands by regularly using a protective hand cream or lotion, at least daily. • Do not routinely wash hands with soap and water immediately before or after using an alcohol-based handrub. • Do not use hot water to rinse your hands.
Hand hygiene is a top priority at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Hand hygiene means cleaning your hands by either washing them with soap and water, or by using a hand sanitizing gel. Hand hygiene is the number one way to prevent the spread of germs and to prevent infections.
Describe the technique of handwashing in healthcare institutions. Explain how handwashing decreases risk of infection transmission. Outline interprofessional team strategies for enhancing care coordination and communication to advance the prevention of infections and improve patient outcomes.
Most HAIs are preventable through hand hygiene performed at the right times. The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care outline hand hygiene recommendations and are complemented by the WHO Multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, the Guide to implementation, and an implementation toolkit, which contains many ready-to-use practical ...
This campaign is centers around the WHO’s multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, which includes as key elements: 1) system change, 2) training and education, 3) evaluation and feedback, 4) reminders in the workplace, and 5) institutional safety climate.
Effective hand hygiene is not only a key measure for preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and for safe COVID-19 vaccination, but it also reduces the burden of health care-associated infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance.