Hand washing

Socio-Ecological Model: Washing Hands Rose-Bertine Mercier University of Kansas HSES 365: Peer Health Education Handwashing is the first preventive step to reduce medical conditions caused by bacterial and fungi. In many cases, it is deemed as “do-it-yourself vaccine” (CDC, 2016). Many preventable diseases are caused by lack of hygienic practices. By properly “washing hands before and after preparing foods, eating foods, caring for the sick, after using the toilet, blowing your nose, coughing,…

The article, Washing hands 'affects moral judgment', published in the Telegraph UK summarizes the conclusions found in a British experiment about washing hands and moral judgement. The 2008 article states the findings of the British researchers was that participants who washed their hands had better moral judgement than those that did not wash their hands. The article summarizes how the researchers came to this conclusion as it recalls the participants were split into two groups. One group…

your home that is made out of cloth needs to be washed. Washing is one of the best ways to kill bed bugs since they can’t handle extremely high temperatures like those found in your washer and dryer. Everything that is made out of cloth and can be wash needs to be washed. That includes but is not limited to your clothing, bedding, throw blankets, pillows, shoes, kitchen and bathroom towels, kitchen mitts, rugs and curtains. Instead of washing a single load at a time, and risking the clothing…

microbes found on my hands, learn about the importance of spreading microbes and diseases, and investigate the effectiveness of hand washing and hand sanitizer on killing or reducing microbial growth. The fact that we use aseptic techniques and hand washing is because of this germ theory and we need to use these techniques to reduce contamination and spread of microbes and diseases, especially…

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Organisation. I can see from my video that I also met the key areas of hand washing; I washed the back of my hands, the palms of my hands, in between the fingers, the sides, the finger tips, the thumb, and the wrists. I also interlocked my fingers to ensure that the backs of my fingers were clean. Hand hygiene is an important part of infection control and washing hands regularly (either with soap and water or with alcohol hand gel/rub) reduces the risk of transmitting bacteria from an infected…

Hand hygiene compliance rate in the United States Hospitals is low despite the fact that there is glaring medical evidence that supports the connection between poor hand hygiene and healthcare-associated infections (HAI). It is hard to comprehend why hand hygiene has become a challenging task to healthcare organization to achieve, for nothing is as easy as hand washing; it one of the simplest methods of standard precautions. It is apparent that if healthcare workers do not correctly follow…

Picture this, you just washed your hands after using the restroom and walking out you grab the door handle, but the person to last touch the door didn’t wash their hands. The door handle had contamination from feces due to the person who forgot to wash their hands. So now what? The fact that you have just been contaminated after washing your hands and exiting the bathroom should now make you aware of how easy it is to transmit germs. On the other hand, you should be disgusted by this startling…

Introduction Hand hygiene is the act of cleaning your hands using soap and warm running water, alternatively hand hygiene can be achieved by applying an alcohol based gel. Handwashing is an essential factor in eliminating the spread of infection, as it is key that everyone, be it a patient, visitor or healthcare professional helps to reduce the risk of germs by having an awareness of how easily infections can be transmitted via their hands. Infections can be passed in many different ways,…

Hand Hygiene Compliance and Workflow Analysis When observing common nursing practices implemented in hospitals today, hand hygiene is regarded as an essential measure to reducing the transmission of hospital acquired pathogenic infections. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016), the most frequent mode of pathogen transmission is through the hands. Due to noncompliance, it is estimated to be the cause of two million patient infections in the United States (CDC, 2016).…