The document discusses guidelines for proper hand hygiene for healthcare providers. It recommends a comprehensive approach using soap and water along with alcohol-based hand rubs. Healthcare providers should wash their hands before and after patient contact, before aseptic procedures, and after potential exposure to bodily fluids. Artificial nails can harbor more pathogens and make handwashing less effective. A blended approach of traditional handwashing and alcohol-based products is suggested. Hand hygiene is important even when gloves are worn to prevent the spread of microbes.
Every year, more than 3.5 million children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday because of diarrhea and pneumonia.
Handwashing with soap is among the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrheal diseases and pneumonia,despite its lifesaving potential, handwashing with soap is seldom practiced and not always easy to promote.
Types of Handwashing and techniques (Surgical Scrub) Yashasvi Verma
This ppt shows all types of hand washing and techniques.
It includes normal handwashing, aseptic handwashing, surgical handwashing and hand rub techniques.
Global Hand washing day is celebrated on 15th October. Experts suggests 80% of noninfectious diseases can be prevented. The important tool for disease prevention is proper hand washing. Ask Health related question for free here: https://eclinic.justforhearts.org/forum
Every year, more than 3.5 million children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday because of diarrhea and pneumonia.
Handwashing with soap is among the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrheal diseases and pneumonia,despite its lifesaving potential, handwashing with soap is seldom practiced and not always easy to promote.
Types of Handwashing and techniques (Surgical Scrub) Yashasvi Verma
This ppt shows all types of hand washing and techniques.
It includes normal handwashing, aseptic handwashing, surgical handwashing and hand rub techniques.
Global Hand washing day is celebrated on 15th October. Experts suggests 80% of noninfectious diseases can be prevented. The important tool for disease prevention is proper hand washing. Ask Health related question for free here: https://eclinic.justforhearts.org/forum
The Ebola epidemic which has no existing cure warrants a unique approach from medicine; barrier nursing which emphasises control and prevention of further infection. For now, this method should be considered to gain control over the outbreak.
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A simple way to stay healthy
Hand washing doesn't take much time or effort, but it offers great rewards in terms of preventing illness. Resolve today to adopt this simple habit as a way to help protect your health.
The nursing technique by which a patient with an infectious disease is prevented from infecting other people is called barrier nursing.Hand hygiene is the simplest, most effective measure for infection control.Contact Precautions
Airborne Precautions
Droplet Precautions
Three more elements have been added to standard precautions. They are:
4.1 Respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette
4.2 Safe injection practices
4.3Use of masks for insertion of catheters or injection into spinal or epidural areas
This information sheet gives an overview of how to maintain a good and quality hand hygiene procedure. It is also followed with recommendations on which product to use.
Research shows that washing hands with soap and water could reduce deaths from diarrheal disease by up to 50%. Researchers estimate that if everyone routinely washed their hands, 1 million deaths a year could be prevented. A large percentage of foodborne disease outbreaks are spread by contaminated hands
Wet your hands with clean, running water (warm or cold), turn off the tap, and apply soap. Lather your hands by rubbing them together with the soap. Lather the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds.
Hand washing is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
Any health-care worker, caregiver or person involved in patient care needs to be concerned about hand hygiene
Therefore hand hygiene concerns you!
You must perform hand hygiene to:
protect the patient against harmful germs carried on your hands or present on his/her own skin
protect yourself and the health-care environment from harmful germs
global hand washing day
steps of Hand washing:
“Hands should be washed before significant contact with any patient and after activities likely to cause contamination.”
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1. Hand Washing Made
Easy!
The Latest Guidelines on hand
washing and the use of alcohol-
based hand rubs
2. Perioperative Hand Hygiene
• CDC advocates a comprehensive approach
to hand hygiene using soap and water
along with alcohol-based hand antiseptics
• Patients, staff and State Surveyors
watch closely to ensure every health care
provider utilizes proper hand washing
techniques to guarantee patient safety
• An observed breech in established hand
hygiene routine places all infection
control principles in question
3. Hand Hygiene in the OR
• OR Staff face unique hand hygiene issues
– Sterile verse Clean staff duties
• All staff begin their shift with a traditional
hand scrub technique
– Combines mechanical
agitation with antiseptic
wash
– Removes gross particles,
environmental dirt and
debris from the skin
and under the nails
4. Hand Hygiene and Nails
• Health care providers who wear artificial nails are
more likely to harbor gram-negative pathogens on
their fingertips than are those who have natural
nails, both before and after handwashing.
• Long nails, both natural
and artificial, can facilitate
the colonization of bacteria
on the hands by making
handwashing less effective
and the use of gloves less
practical.
5. Hand Hygiene in the OR
• Alcohol-based hand scrubs can be used
to supplement throughout the day
• Alcohol-based hand scrubs can be
located in many locations in an OR
• A problem arises: the more
convenient the dispensers, the more
complacent one can become to them,
which can ultimately lead to an
increase in surgical site infections
6. Two Environments of the OR
• Hand hygiene must co-exist in both worlds
of the OR: sterile and non-sterile
• A logical approach to perioperative hand
hygiene is a “blended” system using
traditional hand washing
and alcohol-based
products
7. Two Environments of the OR
• As a State Employee once mentioned, a
“blended” approach allows staff to remove
any gross contamination from their hands,
while alcohol-based products provide an
easy-to-implement, second-tier protection
to help hands stay clean.
Remember, when hands and
gloves go below the waist,
gloves come off and hands are
washed before new gloves go
on!
8. Why Wash Hands if Gloves
were worn?
• Any time gloves are removed (sterile or
unsterile) you must wash your hands or
at least use an alcohol-based foam
• A perforated glove may have allowed
microbes to enter and reside
on your skin
– If you do not wash your
hands, you will spread these
microbes to door knobs,
keyboards, pens, your GI
tract, etc…
9. Why Wash Hands if Gloves
were worn?
• The use of gloves do not eliminate the
need for hand hygiene!
• The use of hand hygiene does not
eliminate the need for gloves!
• Alcohol-based hand rubs should be used
before and after using gloves, & before
and after each patient.
• Gloves must be changed whenever they
migrate below the waist line or become
contaminated.
10. Hand Hygiene in the OR
•
Establishing, maintaining, and improving
healthcare environments is part of
providing excellent care and services.
Diligence with handwashing and
maintenance of short nails promotes
prevention of nosocomial infections.
Prevention is more invigorating than
illness and the power of prevention is in
your hands.
Editor's Notes
Each year, nearly 2 million people in the United States get an infection as a result of receiving health care in a hospital and 88,000 die as a direct or indirect result of these infections. Hand-transmission is a major factor in the spread of bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens that cause disease, foodborne illnesses, and nosocomial infections. Everyone is vulnerable, but the elderly, young children, pregnant women, and those with a compromised immune system are at the highest risk.
Normal bacterial flora lives on external body surfaces and in the gastrointestinal tract. Transient floras colonize the superficial layers of the skin and are more susceptible to removal by routine handwashing. Healthcare workers often acquire these organisms during direct patient contact or from contact with contaminated environmental surfaces. Transient floras are the organisms most frequently associated with healthcare related infections. Prevention of their spread is everyone’s responsibility! We all must be aware of their devastating potential and practice excellent hand hygiene so patients, staff or State Surveyors do not have to question our process.
Unique to many other health care areas, the OR functions mostly in a sterile environment. Staff members begin each day attempting to remove as much debris and bacteria from the outside world so as not to contaminate the sterile environment of the operating room. The traditional hand scrub focuses on removing contaminants from a very allusive area, the fingernails. There is substantial scientific evidence that the area below the nail (subungual region of the hands) has the highest concentrations of bacteria and other pathogens. These pathogens can be transmitted from one patient to another via the hands of healthcare personnel, which is a leading cause of transmission of nosocomial infection. The CDC has identified the following sequence of events as modes of transmission: 1. Organisms present on a patient’s skin, or that have been shed onto inanimate objects in close proximity to a patient, must be transferred to the hands of healthcare workers. These organisms must then be capable of surviving for at least several minutes. 2. Next, hand washing or hand antisepsis by the worker must be inadequate or omitted entirely, or the agent used for hand hygiene must be inappropriate. 3. Finally, the contaminated hands of the caregiver must come in direct contact with another patient, or with an inanimate object that will come into direct contact with another patient.
As the fingernail grows out, it will eventually extend to a point where it is no longer attached to this skin. The majority of bacterial growth occurs at our fingertips adjacent to this area where the fingernail and subungual skin are no longer attached. The longer the nail, the more likely it is that bacteria can reside under its free edge. The Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) has issued a practice statement on artificial nails. “ Artificial nails of any type should not be worn in the perioperative setting. It does not matter whether the person is scrubbed or circulating, artificial nails are not acceptable in the operating room”.
In hand hygiene guidelines developed by the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, washing hands with soap and water is the traditional means of neutralizing bacteria, however rubbing hands with an alcohol hand rub is quickly becoming the primary means of hand hygiene to be used by healthcare personnel involved in routine patient care. The rationale behind this is the documented, increased antimicrobial efficacy of alcohol hand rubs over washing hands with either plain soap and water or an antimicrobial soap. In addition, there is the potential for increased compliance with hand hygiene because hand rubbing requires less time, results in less skin irritation, and does not require proximity to a sink. The only qualification is that the hands must be free from visible soiling prior to the use of an alcohol hand rub. As this change in hand hygiene evolves, staff must recognize the importance of using these devices and not allow them to blend into the environment, easily overlooked and unused.
As mentioned, the Operating Room is an unique environment requiring strict sterile technique to ensure the safety of their patients. Interlaced within this sterile environment is the day-to-day non-sterile operations and support requirements to ensure the surgical environment maintains sterility. At any given moment sterile and non-sterile share a very thin line within the perioperative environment. To prevent cross-contamination, a unique blending of available hand hygiene techniques must be used. Here are some basic guidelines for a Blending of handwashing and hand antisepsis · When hands are visibly dirty or contaminated with proteinaceous material or are visibly soiled with blood or other body fluids, wash hands with either a non-antimicrobial soap and water or an antimicrobial soap and water. · If hands are not visibly soiled, use an alcohol-based hand rub for routinely decontaminating hands or alternatively, wash hands with an antimicrobial soap and water.
In any patient care area, and especially within the surgical suite, any time the hands go below the waist, pick up a contaminated item or in some way become non-sterile, you must remove the gloves, wash/rub your hands and re-glove. This process also must happen any time gloves are removed to review charts, use a keyboard or pen, or leave a room – remove gloves, wash/rub, and re-glove after the task is completed. Suggested Hand-hygiene technique When decontaminating hands with an alcohol-based hand rub, apply product to palm of one hand and rub hands together, covering all surfaces of hands and fingers, until hands are dry. When washing hands with soap and water, wet hands first with water, apply an amount of product recommended by the manufacturer to hands, and rub hands together vigorously for at least 15 seconds, covering all surfaces of the hands and fingers. Rinse hands with water and dry thoroughly with a disposable towel. Use the towel to turn off the faucet. Avoid using hot water, because repeated exposure to hot water might increase the risk of dermatitis
In addition to hand washing, gloves play an important role in reducing the risks of transmission of microorganisms. However, you can not treat gloves as an impervious barrier protecting you from all evils. Wearing gloves does not replace the need for hand washing, because gloves may have small, in-apparent defects or may be torn during use, and hands can become contaminated during removal of gloves. Even the most minuscule perforation can allow a flood of microbes onto your hand without you even knowing it! Gloves are worn for three important reasons in hospitals. First , gloves are worn to provide a protective barrier and to prevent gross contamination of the hands when touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, mucous membranes, and non-intact skin; as mandated by the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. Second , gloves are worn to reduce the likelihood that microorganisms present on the hands of personnel will be transmitted to patients during invasive or other patient-care procedures that involve touching a patient's mucous membranes and non-intact skin. Third , gloves are worn to reduce the likelihood that hands of personnel contaminated with microorganisms from a patient or object can transmit these microorganisms to another patient. In this situation, gloves must be changed between patient contacts and hands washed after gloves are removed.
The use of gloves does not eliminate the need for hand hygiene. Likewise, the use of hand hygiene does not eliminate the need for gloves. Gloves reduce hand contamination by 70% to 80%, prevent cross-contamination, and protect patients and health care personnel from infection. Hand rubs should be used before and after each patient just as gloves should be changed before and after each patient.
Thank you for your attention as we reviewed this very important infection prevention tool – hand hygiene! After watching this next video from the AORN, please take a moment to complete the quick post-test and return the results to your unit assistant. You will be provided a certificate of completion upon completion of your knowledge assessment.