Introduction : Hand washing is one of the effective measures for avoiding the spread of multiple resistant bacteria and reducing the health care-associated infections. “Adherence with recommendations for hand hygiene remains low, but key factors of noncompliance have been identified and corrective actions proposed”( Pittet D,1999 ). Hand washing is very important for patients , relative and all health care workers. The main objective of hand hygiene in the medical practices is to eliminate the cross contamination of microorganisms among profession and a cross patients. This essay will discuss : A brief definition of the key concepts such as : Evidence Based Practice and hand hygiene . The importance of using ‘ Evidence’ when performing
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Hygiene is not just the nurses obligation, it is an imparted obligation between healing center organization, key pioneers, patients and others partners. Hand washing needs a different mediations approach to make it a manageable practice inside social insurance. “hand hygiene is not only the responsibility of the Infection Control Department and recommends a multidisciplinary approach: hospital administration, other key leaders and nursing leaders are the key to success for hand hygiene compliance within a hospital”( Cambell 2010 ). The statistics for hand washing shows : 80% of communicable diseases are transferred by touch , Only 20% of people wash their hands before preparing food , Less than 75% of women and less than 50% of men wash their hands after going to the bathroom, Only 20% of people dry their hands after washing ( b4brands , 2013). Good hand washing will bring down the risk of things like flu, food poisoning and healthcare associated infections being passed from person to person. The hands should be washed : after visiting the toilet , before eating , when the hands are visibly dirty and after coughing. While the healthcare worker may have the persuading information or contention for hand washing as a contamination control preventive action, hand washing …show more content…
Hand washing should become an educational priority for medical students should provide clear evidence that HCWs hands become grossly contaminated with pathogens upon patient contact and that alcohol hand rubs are the easiest and most effective way of decontaminating hands and thereby reducing the rates of HAIs. Increasing the emphasis on infection control, giving the charge of infection control to senior organizational members, changing the paradigm of surveillance to continuous monitoring and effective data feedback are some of the important measures which need to be initiated in hospitals. One of the reasons microbes have survived in nature is probably their simplicity: a simple genomic framework with genetic encryptation of basic survival strategies. To trans these microbes, human beings will have to follow basic and simple protocols of infection prevention. The health care practitioners in our country need to brace themselves to inculcate the simple, basic and effective practice of hand hygiene in their daily patient care activities and serve as a role model for future generations of doctors, nurses and paramedical
Hand
Hygiene is not just the nurses obligation, it is an imparted obligation between healing center organization, key pioneers, patients and others partners. Hand washing needs a different mediations approach to make it a manageable practice inside social insurance. “hand hygiene is not only the responsibility of the Infection Control Department and recommends a multidisciplinary approach: hospital administration, other key leaders and nursing leaders are the key to success for hand hygiene compliance within a hospital”( Cambell 2010 ). The statistics for hand washing shows : 80% of communicable diseases are transferred by touch , Only 20% of people wash their hands before preparing food , Less than 75% of women and less than 50% of men wash their hands after going to the bathroom, Only 20% of people dry their hands after washing ( b4brands , 2013). Good hand washing will bring down the risk of things like flu, food poisoning and healthcare associated infections being passed from person to person. The hands should be washed : after visiting the toilet , before eating , when the hands are visibly dirty and after coughing. While the healthcare worker may have the persuading information or contention for hand washing as a contamination control preventive action, hand washing …show more content…
Hand washing should become an educational priority for medical students should provide clear evidence that HCWs hands become grossly contaminated with pathogens upon patient contact and that alcohol hand rubs are the easiest and most effective way of decontaminating hands and thereby reducing the rates of HAIs. Increasing the emphasis on infection control, giving the charge of infection control to senior organizational members, changing the paradigm of surveillance to continuous monitoring and effective data feedback are some of the important measures which need to be initiated in hospitals. One of the reasons microbes have survived in nature is probably their simplicity: a simple genomic framework with genetic encryptation of basic survival strategies. To trans these microbes, human beings will have to follow basic and simple protocols of infection prevention. The health care practitioners in our country need to brace themselves to inculcate the simple, basic and effective practice of hand hygiene in their daily patient care activities and serve as a role model for future generations of doctors, nurses and paramedical