The document discusses the importance of hand hygiene in preventing the spread of infections in healthcare settings. It notes that Ignaz Semmelweis in the 1800s first established the link between poor hand hygiene of healthcare workers and the spread of infections in hospitals. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the "My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene" guidelines to educate healthcare workers on proper hand hygiene practices. The document emphasizes that hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to reduce transmission of harmful germs and prevent healthcare-associated infections.

1. TEACHING
HAND HYGIENE
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2. The Program Dedicated to Ignaz Semmelweis
who wished to save many lives with simple Hand
washing
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3. Philosophy of Hand
Hygiene• I have spent more than 4 decades in
Profession and many years as a Microbiologist
attached to many Institutes, the least cared
practice is Good hand hygiene, Many patient's
get infected after bone surgeries and many
others with more critical care and succumb to
Hospital associated infections, It certainly
shows after centuries of education on hand
hygiene few act as Ambassadors to good
hand hygiene and control the infections
More the people are seniors they are least
bothered about a good hand hygiene. In
reality Infections can be prevented and rarely
cured with emerging drug resistance.
• Never forget a Scientific Hand Wash is a great
prayer to the almighty to save many Humans
we deal
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4. HISTORY OF
HAND
HYGINE
• Handwashing with soap and
water has been considered a
measure of personal hygiene
for centuries and has been
generally embedded in
religious and cultural habits.
Nevertheless, the link
between handwashing and
the spread of disease was
established only two
centuries ago,
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5. HISTORY OF
HAND HYGINE
• In the mid-1800s, studies
by Ignaz Semmelweis in
Vienna, Austria, and
Oliver Wendell Holmes
in Boston, USA,
established that
hospital-acquired
diseases were
transmitted via the
hands of HCWs
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6. HISTORY OF
HAND HYGINE
• The 1980s represented a
landmark in the evolution of
concepts of hand hygiene in
health care. The first national
hand hygiene guidelines were
published in the 1980 followed
by several others in more recent
years in different countries
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7. Why we Wash our
hands
•Germs are everywhere.
•Germs are so small that you
cannot see them.
•Germs can make you sick with
spread of infections
•You can get rid of germs by
washing your hands.
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8. What everybody should know about
Hand Washing
• Germs are so small that you can not see them and they can be found
almost everywhere.
• Washing your hands can help to get rid of germs. Germs can make you
sick.
• There are many types of germs (e.g., bacteria and viruses).
• Bacteria and viruses cause illness and disease.
• Some illnesses and diseases that are caused by bacteria and viruses are
very serious.
• Some examples of illnesses and diseases caused by bacteria and viruses
are: colds, flu, pneumonia, hepatitis A and shigellosis.
• Washing your hands is the best way to prevent these illnesses and
diseases.
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9. Why is hand hygiene so
important?
• Millions of germs are picked up by
hands during every-day activities.
Many of these are harmless but
some cause illness such as colds,
flu and stomach bugs.
• Hand hygiene is essential to
prevent the transfer of these germs
to other people and surfaces to
stop the spread of illness.
• Poor hand hygiene can lead to the
spread of Campylobacter,
Salmonella, MRSA, Impetigo and
Flu.
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10. Importance of
Handwashing:
HOW HAND WASHING
PROTECTS FROM
INFECTIONS
•Illnesses and diseases
caused by bacteria
and viruses can be
very serious and can
even cause death if
not properly treated.
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11. Suggested teaching
ideas:
• Find out why it is important to wash our hands regularly.
• Make a set of instructions to teach people how to wash their
hands thoroughly.
• Use Art / Computing materials to make posters encouraging
people to wash their hands.
• Display the 'Have you washed your hands?' poster
around your classroom.
• Watch this video and discuss some of the issues that it raises:
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12. How we educate the Health care
workers and public
Hand washing message needs to be reinforced several times
throughout the day, especiallyBe
before lunch and after using the restroom.Lunch
Teach by example.Teach by
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13. When to Wash Your
Hands:
• After using the toilet.
•Before preparing, touching
or eating food.
• After playing with animals.
• After touching money.
• After coughing, sneezing, or
blowing your nose.
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14. Teach the Health
care Workers as
Priority
• All health-care
workers require clear
and comprehensive
training and
education on the
importance of hand
hygiene,
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15. 5 Moments
for Hand
Hygiene
•My 5 Moments
for Hand Hygiene"
approach and the
correct
procedures for
hand rubbing and
handwashing.
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16. 5 Moments of Hand
Hygiene
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17. WHO 'My 5 moments for Hand
Hygiene
• The WHO 'My 5 moments for
Hand Hygiene', 'How to Hand
rub' and 'How to Hand wash'
illustrations can be
reproduced in their entirety
without any modifications or
adaptations to layout or
wording. This includes the
WHO and Patient Safety
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18. How to
Hand wash
• Wet your hands with
warm water.
• Lather up with soap.
...
• Rinse your hands well
under warm, running
water.
• Dry your hands using
a clean towel.
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19. Steps in
Hand
Hygiene
•Scrub your hands
for 20 seconds –
about the time it
takes to say the
alphabet slowly or
hum the “Happy
Birthday” song twice
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20. Steps in
Hand
Hygiene
•Rinse your
hands well
under warm,
running water.
•Dry your hands
using a clean
towel.
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21. Better steps How to wash your
hands
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22. Better steps How to wash your
hands
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23. Better steps How to wash your
hands
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24. Better steps How to wash your
hands
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25. Better steps How to wash
your hands
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28. Do not Forget to
pledge to
wash hands
regularly
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29. References
• CDC and WHO guidelines on Hand Hygiene
• Safety First Aid
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