Clinical Safety: Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers
2024年2月27日 · Require healthcare personnel to perform hand hygiene based on CDC recommendations. Ensure that healthcare providers perform hand hygiene with soap and water when hands are visibly soiled. Ensure supplies for adhering to hand hygiene are accessible when delivering patient care.
Clean Hands in Healthcare Training | Clean Hands | CDC
2024年3月8日 · CDC provides hand hygiene trainings and resources for healthcare providers. Clean and healthy hands count at every level of healthcare. The Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Video Series are four short videos to help build a …
About Hand Hygiene for Patients in Healthcare Settings
Cleaning your hands can prevent the spread of germs, including those that are resistant to antibiotics, and protects healthcare personnel and patients. Patients and their loved ones can play a role in asking and reminding healthcare personnel to …
Infection prevention and control - World Health Organization (WHO)
2009年5月5日 · Performing hand hygiene at key moments is an important health care intervention. Hand hygiene reduces the transmission of microorganisms (including those that are antibiotic-resistant), increases patient safety, and decreases health …
• Hands are the main pathways of germ transmission during health care. • Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent health care-associated infections. • This brochure explains how …
Infection prevention and control - World Health Organization (WHO)
2009年2月9日 · The My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene approach defines the key moments when health-care workers should perform hand hygiene. This evidence-based, field-tested, user-centred approach is designed to be easy to learn, logical and applicable in a wide range of settings.
Hand Hygiene - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
2023年7月31日 · Mortality and morbidity increase in the presence of hospital-acquired infections, thus diligent hand hygiene is essential to providing safe, cost-efficient, quality care to our patients. Educational programs for patients and healthcare providers, ergonomics, and staffing ratios all play a role in hand hygiene compliance.
Hand Hygiene - APIC
Education & training. APIC offers a comprehensive collection of clinical education and professional development programs. The following resources are educational opportunities related to hand hygiene. Visit the Education & Certification …
WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care
2009年1月15日 · The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs.
Standard precautions: Hand hygiene - OpenWHO
2020年2月25日 · identify the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene; discuss glove use and hand hygiene during patient care activities; demonstrate the correct way to wash hands with soap and water according to the WHO-recommended method; demonstrate the correct way to perform hand hygiene with an alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) according …