Hand washing

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…

1. Hand Washing The concept of hand washing is significant to public health as it support the prevention and control of infections. A large number of infectious diseases outbreak has been controlled by campaigns that focused on hand washing. The transmission of infections from person to person and objects to persons can be prevented through hand washing. Since the introduction of hand washing by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-65) who documented the association between hand hygiene practices of…

trainer will explain that hand washing is the most important infection control measure to prevent illness in adults…

they have to maintain a high standard of cleanliness when in and out of the healthcare setting. Proper hand washing techniques and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been shown to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections through the use of various research studies. With this right amount of hygiene in order to avoid cross contamination, patients are able to progress at a faster rate and healthcare professionals are able to inhibit new infections from forming. Hand washing is…

Proper hand washing plays a huge role in fundamental aspect of nursing. One of the main cause for transmitting infectious diseases is the lack of hand washing. Many people do not realize that by simply washing their hand, they are preventing the spread of countless diseases and infections. Proper hand washing is not only important in a hospital setting, but also in a house hold because it is very important to properly wash your hands after going to the rest room, before and after eating, or…

With hand washing, not only is it helping the hospital prevent many infections and such but it is also helping healthcare workers as well. Proper hand washing from both health care workers and patients (even if it’s required to wash the patient’s hands for them) can help prevent hospital acquired infections and help stop the spread of diseases and sickness. While not a major improvement from the study, it conducted from the nurses’ hand washing that the number of nurses’ washing their hands…

Clinical Hand Washing Practices: Nursing Students Tell the Dirty Truth Proper hand hygiene has been proven to be the most important action a person can take to stop the spread of illness. This is especially true in healthcare settings where patients are already at a heightened risk of susceptibility and the exposure of added pathogens could mean the difference between life and death. Hand hygiene practices: nursing students’ perceptions discusses the importance of healthcare workers hand…

One of the most basic forms of safety for the laboratory and in general is washing hands. From a young age, people are told to wash their hands to rid themselves of any germs they may be housing. As people age, they begin to learn about these germs and the effects of them if they are not cleaned off of their bodies. In the lab, it is one of the most basic rules of safety, wash hands to stop the spread of anything the students worked with. Washing hands is a general rule of society in order…

Infection can easily spread by contacting infected people or objects for the reason that hands are the main pathway for transmission between them and that will unfortunately help diseases to spread freely among the society and to be in the safe side there is a super solution for facing this issue which is hand washing. Hand washing plays an important role in limiting the spread of infection in healthcare and community settings that’s why it is considered as an essential step that must followed…

2011). In some cultures children’s faeces are regarded as harmless. For this reason adults may not wash their hands after handling children’s faeces (Traore 1994 and Curtis 2000). However, evidence from Tanzania suggests that children’s faeces are equally as hazardous as adult faeces and may contain…