What’s Your Hand In It? is a Dragon’s Den-style competition where healthcare organizations submit their brilliant idea for evidenced-based hand hygiene improvement. We selected five entries who will be invited to pitch their ideas via WebEx to our panel of judges. The pitch to our panel of judges will take place virtually on STOP! Clean Your Hands Day - May 5, 2014. The panel of judges will provide instant feedback on your pitch and the winner will be announced live after all three pitches have been made. Watch all the hand hygiene idea pitches to our judges: http://bit.ly/10cZ7SZ

1. Hand Hygiene Volunteen Program
Cape Breton District Health Authority.

2. Cape Breton: Nova Scotia’s Masterpiece

3. GREAT PLACE

4. GREAT PEOPLE

5. C.difficile Outbreaks!!
 2 C. difficile outbreaks in 2011.
 91 laboratory confirmed cases of C. difficile resulting
in deaths.
 There is not a hospital that has not experienced
C.difficile in some degree .
 Public confidence in the Cape Breton District
Health Authority was at an all time low.

6. Media Coverage

7. Poor Public Perception

8. Moving Forward
Goals:
 Decrease Healthcare Associated Infections
 Increase public confidence in the Cape Breton
District Health Authority
 Public participation in a Patient Safety Initiative

9. How did we get here?
 Collaboration took place between Infection
Prevention & Control and Volunteer Services
 Guidelines for the “Volunteen Program” were
established.
 Focus on public involvement and participation

10. Program Development
 Recruitment of Volunteers from Cape Breton University
associated with the Health Sciences Department
 Volunteens were educated by Infection Prevention
Control on proper Hand Hygiene technique
 Portable Hand Hygiene station provided consisting of
free samples of alcohol based hand rub and educational
brochures .
 Individual public Hand Hygiene demonstrations on
proper technique provided by volunteers.

11. Success!!
 Positive public feedback and perception
 Empowerment of volunteens.
 Multiple demonstrations provided reaching
approximately 75 people per session.
 Public engagement in patient safety

12. Maintaining Success
 Continuing collaboration between the Cape District
Health Authority and Cape Breton University
 Proposed academic credit for Cape Breton University
Volunteens as incentive toward achieving continuing
recruitment.
 Objective measurement tool to be implemented by
Fall 2014.

13. Questions???????