Keep Germs Away Everyday
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This document provides tips for protecting yourself and others from influenza or "the flu". It recommends proper hand washing, covering coughs, getting a flu shot annually, staying home when sick, and avoiding visiting hospitals or long-term care homes when sick. It also suggests exercising regularly and eating healthy. Specific tips include washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, using hand sanitizer if hands are not visibly dirty, coughing into your arm or a tissue, and maintaining distance from those who are coughing or sneezing.
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Keep Germs Away Everyday
- 1. KEEP GERMS AW AY, EVERY DAY !
- 2. How to Protect Yourself and Others from “the Flu” • Proper Hand Washing • Cover Your Cough • Get an flu shot every year • Stay Home if You are Sick • Don’t visit people in hospitals or long-term care homes when you are sick with influenza • Exercise regularly and eat a healthy, well balanced diet
- 3. 7 After touching “high-traffic” items like doorknobs or shopping carts 8 Handling dirty laundry & garbage 9 Tending to someone who is sick
- 4. ASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN ITH SOAP AND WATERW
- 5. 6 Steps Hand Washing
- 6. How to use an Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer • Use only if hands are not visibly dirty • Use on dry hands • Use enough sanitizer to wet both hands thoroughly • Rub in between and around fingers, back of each hand, thumbs, and nail beds • Keep rubbing until hands are dry
- 7. COVER YOUR COUGH OR SNEEZE ! !• Use a tissue and dispose appropriately • Cough or sneeze into your arm or sleeve • Wash your hands • Maintain a distance of one meter with people who are coughing or sneezing
- 8. Hand Washing Song ! ! ! “Twinkle, twinkle little star, Look how clean my two hands are, Soap and water, wash and scrub Get those germs off rub-a-dub. Twinkle, twinkle little star, Look how clean my two hands are!”
- 10. By…..RIS Clinic
Editor's Notes
- Speaker notes: Welcome the participants Objective of presentation : give participants an introduction on how to prevent the spread of infection in health care setting, other workplaces and at home _______________ T3 notes Can be used: • to talk about prevention of flu • can be incorporated into pandemic preparedness training as component of pandemic prevention • potential audiences include health care workers, workplaces in general, community, your family!
- There are really 5 basic steps that will help you to avoid the flu. 1Proper hand washing 2Cover your cough / sneeze 3Get a flu shot every year 4Stay at home if you’re sick 5Exercise regularly and eat a balanced diet. We’ll talk a bit more about each of these as we go through the presentation.
- Note that the alcohol can sometimes “bleach” out the colour in your clothes. Rub your fingers until they are dry – don’t rub excess off on to your clothes.
- This slide repeats what was talked about with the previous slide – for those who “learn visually” and need to see it written down. Also an opportunity to re-state the steps. This is also an opportunity to raise the issue of cleaning in the home when someone has the flu: If someone in your home has the flu (and really all the time) it’s good idea to: - Wash hard surfaces (like counter-tops) frequently – you don’t need to use “special” or anti-bacterial soap - Wash laundry, utensils and dishes with detergent and water after use - Don’t share personal items such as towels, cups, utensils, toothbrushes, etc.
- Teach your children how to protect themselves and others from the flu – how to wash their hands and cover their cough / sneeze. If children ask “ how long do I wash my hands” Answer” as long as it takes to sing twinkle, twinkle little star” These are good basic infection control habits to learn early in life – and, if they become habits, kids will always do them automatically.
- Speaker notes: Welcome the participants Objective of presentation : give participants an introduction on how to prevent the spread of infection in health care setting, other workplaces and at home _______________ T3 notes Can be used: • to talk about prevention of flu • can be incorporated into pandemic preparedness training as component of pandemic prevention • potential audiences include health care workers, workplaces in general, community, your family!