Hand Hygiene

HAND HYGIENE Best Practices for 2006By Carolyn Twomey, RNMost of us don’t doubt the importance of handwashing in establishing good hand hygiene. The biggest disconnect in what is best practice and what we actually do comes in being handwashing compliant. A second factor is the type of active ingredient in the handwashing product we use.The Great Handwashing Debacle: A Look Back ...

WHO Issues Guidelines on Hand Hygiene To fight the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners are launching the Global Patient Safety Challenge with the theme, “Clean Care is Safer Care.” As part of the launch, an advanced draft of the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Healthcare is being made available to ...

How to Comply With HAND-HYGIENE IMPERATIVES By Deborah Davis, PhD, MBA, MS There has been renewed emphasis placed on hand hygiene and skin wellness as a result of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings”. The guideline addresses issues that can result in higher incidence of nosocomial infections among patients, and ...

How to Use an Alcohol-Based Handrub Hand hygiene is the single most important action that can help reduce the spread of infection in hospitals. However, some 2 million healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur each year accounting for nearly 90,000 deaths annually. Approximately one-third of these infections may be prevented by good hand hygiene on the part of healthcare workers. Other ...

Hand Hygiene and Glove Issues: Promoting Compliance & Education By Kris Ellis and Erika Camardella IN THE EFFORT TO INCREASE HAND-HYGIENE compliance rates, infection control practitioners (ICPs) and manufacturers of hand-hygiene products have found ways to help healthcare workers (HCWs) better comply with aseptic protocol to reduce or prevent healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). “There are 2 million HAIs per year and more ...