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- 1. HAND WASHING ANDHYGIENE This presentation will take you through the who, what, where, why, when and how of hand hygiene. Some important points will be reviewed to improve your hand hygiene practice.
- 2. WE ARE FOLLOWINGWHO GUIDELINES FOR HAND HYGIENE. 1. Clean care is safer care 2. Save lives 3. Clean your Hands The organisation adheres to hand-hygiene guidelines-NABH-HIC-2(c)
- 3. FATHER OF HANDHYGIENE Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor working in Vienna General Hospital, is known as the father of hand hygiene
- 4. BY THE ENDOF THIS PRESENTATION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Identify who should practice hand hygiene Describe what hand hygiene is Identify where hand hygiene practice should take place Explain why hand hygiene is important Describe when hand hygiene is to be performed Describe how to perform hand hygiene using various methods Describe tips for success for effective of hand hygiene
- 5. THE “WHO, WHAT,WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY” OF HAND HYGIENE Hand Hygiene includes cleaning hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub in order to remove germs, also known as microorganisms.
- 6. Who should practiceHand Hygiene? Hand hygiene is important not only for healthcare providers; everyone needs to be practicing appropriate and effective hand hygiene regardless of work setting. Everyone
- 7. Busy healthcare providers need access to hand hygiene products where patient or patient environment contact is taking place. Hand hygiene is important in all work settings, including Acute Care, Long Term Care Facilities, Community and Corporate sites. Providing alcohol-based hand rub at the point of care (within arm’s reach) is an important system support to improve hand hygiene. This enables health care providers to quickly and easily fulfill the 4 Moments for Hand Hygiene. WHERE SHOULD YOU PERFORM HAND HYGIENE?
- 8. WHY DO WENEED TO LEARN ABOUT HAND HYGIENE? Hand hygiene is the most important way to prevent the spread of germs. Hand hygiene helps keep you healthy by reducing the number of germs on your hands and helps reduce the spread of germs to your family, friends, coworkers, patients, residents or clients. Using appropriate hand hygiene prevents contamination of the patient’s, client’s, or resident’s environment.
- 9. TYPES OF HANDHYGIENE 1. Medical hand hygiene 2. surgical hand hygiene
- 10. TYPES OF HANDHYGIENE MEDICAL /SURGICAL Medical hand hygiene Duration is at least 20-30 with alcohol based hand rub. Soap solation is at least 60 seconds Surgical hand hygiene Duration is 3-5 minutes (Surgical hand asepsis)
- 11. MOMENTS OF HANDWASHING-5
- 12. MOMENT 1. BEFORECONTACT WITH A PATIENT Clean your hands when entering or before touching the patient. This will protect the patient from harmful organisms carried on your hands. Before shaking hands Before transferring
- 13. Clean your handsimmediately before any aseptic or clean procedure to protect the patient against harmful organisms. Clean your hands before… Handling dressings or touching open wounds Performing invasive procedures This prevents the patient’s own organisms from entering his or her body. B. Before performing clean or aseptic procedure To protect patients from infectious agents (including their own) entering
- 14. Clean your handsimmediately after an exposure risk to body fluids (and after glove removal). when hands are visibly soiled use Only with soap solution not Hand rub c. After a procedure or body fluid exposure risk Clean your hands after… Contact with blood, bodily fluids, non- intact skin or mucous membranes, Removal of gloves Contact with contaminated items To Protect healthcare wagents To Protect healthcare workers and the healthcare surroundings from acquiring patients’ infectious agents.
- 15. Clean your handswhen leaving the environment after touching patient. Moment 4. After contact with a patient Clean your hands after… Shaking hands Transferring Making someone comfortable in bed Help protect yourself and the health care environment from harmful patient organisms.
- 16. Help protect yourselfand the health care environment from harmful patient organisms. Clean your hands after… Contact with home environment Contact with treatment area or clinic room 5. After touching patient surroundings
- 17. STEPS OF HANDHYGIENE USING ALCOHOL BASED HAND-RUB - Apply a palm full of the product in a cupped hand, covering all surfaces. Step 1 - Rub hands palm to palm. Step 2 - Right palm over left dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa. Step 3 - Palm to palm with fingers interlaced. Step 4 - Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked. Step 5 - Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa. Step 6 - Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm and vice versa. Once dry, hands are safe.
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- 19. PRE-OPERATIVE HAND WASHINGTECHNIQUE (SURGICAL HAND ASEPSIS) A more thorough hand washing technique is required pre-operatively and before undertaking invasive procedures like lumbar puncture, central lines, tracheostomy etc. • Remove watch and other jewellery • Stand well away from the sink,
- 20. Turn onthe tap using the elbow/foot, • Wet hands from fingertips to elbow, holding up to enable water to run down from the finger to the elbow. • Remove dirt from underneath fingernails. • Apply soap solution and scrub each hand with the other, using rotatory movements from the fingertips to the elbows, with special attention to the nails and webs of fingers. The procedure should last for at least 3-5 minutes. • Rinse thoroughly under running water ensuring that water flows from the fingertips to the elbow. • Close tap with elbow/foot, taking care not to touch any spot that has been scrubbed. • Pat hands dry using a single use towel beginning with the hands and proceeding to the wrists and then to the forearms.
- 22. “HANDY” TIPS 1 Artificialnails, gel nails or extenders are not to be worn by staff who have direct patient contact. 2 Contaminated surfaces or objects should not be touched after performing hand hygiene. 3 Avoid touching your face, especially your eyes and nose. 4 Fingernails should be kept short - no longer than ¼” or 0.635cm long. 5 Nail polish may be worn, but should be removed when chipped.