Handwashing

To ensure effective hand washing is carried out when working with service users, giving personal care, handling/preparing food.

that not all papers will have headings or subheadings in them. Medical settings facility, long term facilities, residential care are full germs and organisms so it is important to wash hands on regular basis.

This experiment illustrates the importance of handwashing and proves that hand washing is worth it. Since our hands are constantly coming into contact with ourselves and others, touching surfaces, grabbing objects, being sneezed into, etc., keeping our hands clean is one of the most effective, yet simple way we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Many diseases and conditions are spread by not washing hands with soap and clean, running warm water. “The human skin is a host to anywhere between 10,000-10,000,000 bacteria per square centimeter and since health care providers come into contact with pathogenic bacteria by being engaged in patient care, hand washing can reduce the risk of spreading diseases (page 3).” The objective of the experiment is to test the effectiveness of hand washing and demonstrate normal flora. This report presents the procedures and materials for the experiment, the experiment's results, and an analysis of those results.

The importance of proper hand hygiene has been known for many years. “It has long been an established fact that one of the most dangerous agents in the transfer of bacteria is the human hand with its five fingers…Such being the case, pray let us teach our students to wash their hands and see to it that they

- Discussions and teaching sessions of children washing their hand prior to meals, and after the toilet.

Although they understand wiping and cleaning after using the bathroom, hand hygiene may need to still be reinforced.

To help the prevention of infection spreading is by knowing the method of washing your hand because we carry most bacteria sue to the open air that we come in contact with. For example we use are hands to shake hands with someone holding or touching objects. When you are performing any form of hand hygiene you will need to make sure that you have washed your hand with anti-bacterial liquid soap; this is to help prevent any bacteria which we already have on our hands. In all health and social care settings an automatic liquid dispenser should be placed so that when washing hands any individual doesn’t touch or need to even sneeze any part of the liquid

Encougrage the individuals own personal hygine = Always see that they wash there hands after toilet or before eating, always see that if

Generations of people have considered handwashing a measure of personal hygiene. In 1847, Dr. Semmelweis insisted that healthcare providers wash their hands with disinfecting agents between patients. This early hand hygiene practice resulted in a decrease in mortality rates among hospital patients (CDC, 2002). The CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee published the Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings in 2002 that is based on hand hygiene foundations developed in generation past. In 2014, this guideline is still available online and used as a reference

Due to the limited information given in the scenario, it is difficult to identify the right agent that caused the GI distress on the Veterans. However, I agree with you when you mentioned it could be due to a number of things, including MERS, a respiratory illness that also causes some GI distress. Manufacturing plants are an ideal environment for people to contract diseases, due to the confined and sometimes crowded spaces. For this reason, nurses need to implement primary prevention interventions in order to contain the spread of the agent. I also have the same opinion about handwashing, and I think it should be implemented in all levels of prevention. In this specific scenario, since these workers are already sick, secondary and tertiary

Healthcare associated infections have an impact on patients - how? Can be prevented greatly with compliance to hand hygiene protocols (REF).

Within the essay I am going to discuss whether good hand hygiene practices are the single most important factor in preventing cross infection. Some may argue for this statement others against. Jeanes A (2005) refers to the NMC code of professional conduct (2004) who state that you must act to identify and minimise risk to patients and clients.

Antisepsis techniques have been around since the mid 1800s, pioneered by Ignaz Philip Semmelweis. Semmelweis determined puerperal infection was being transmitted by the hands of students to women giving birth. Semmelweis implemented a procedure that stated: any attending individual had to wash their hands in a mixture of chlorinated lime prior to caring for a patient. This action alone resulted in mortality rates dropping an estimated 94% within a year (Zoltán, 2007). In hospitals today, hand hygiene remains a staple in everyday practice, through the primary use of alcohol based hand sanitizers. However, it is estimated that at any point in time there are over 1.4 million cases of healthcare associated infections (HAI) (Ontario, 2016). Annually, in Canada alone, it is projected that eight thousand deaths occur in hospitals and associated health care facilities due to infections resulting from lack of proper hand hygiene (Ontario, 2016). Alcohol based hand sanitizer are a readily available and a time

(Nagel 22). Student nurses and volunteers should place emphasis on hand-washing before and after contact

According to Kartha (200!), many people consider handwashing a waste of time. However, they are unaware that