The Hand Book : Surviving Of A Germ Filled World

Hand hygiene practices are important thing to infection prevention and control practice. As health provider especially ED staff or front liner, to follow hand washing protocols is necessary in any situation. According Practice Standard (2009) four major elements to preventing practice; hand washing, protective barriers, care of equipment and health practice of nurse. Cite from Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland, scientists has found around 45% of infections can be prevented by washing hands regularly. MOH (2010) increasing in hand-washing compliance by

OBJECTIVE The objective for Rabie and Curtis (2006) was to determine the influence of hand washing on the risk of respiratory infection. METHOD The method adopted by Rabie and Curtis (2006) was to study a number of primary and review articles from five diverse databases before June 2004 in differing languages, to create a systematic review. Included in the review were studies which identified the impact of an intervention to promote hand cleansing on respiratory infections. Studies regarding hospital-acquired infections, long-term care facilities and the elderly were excluded. All studies were then evaluated where a conclusive decision was reached by consensus. Interestingly, from a primary list of 410 articles, only eight interventional studies reached the eligibility criteria. RESULTS The eight eligible studies disclosed that hand washing with antiseptic soap lowered risks of respiratory infection; the risk reduction identified as being from 6% to 44% and this range figures implied that hand washing can indeed reduce the risk of respiratory infection by 16% (Rabie and Curtis 2006). CONCLUSION Rabie and Curtis (2006) concluded that the studies collected were of insufficient quality and only one of the studies related to severe disease as well as none of the studies related

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.

Keeping our hands clean is one of the most effcient and important steps we can do as humans to avoid getting sick or spreading germs to other people. Unwashed hands spread many diseases such as the flue, E. coli, and salmonella. Unfortunately, hand hygiene is still one of today’s most leading causes of infection in health care facilities. The risk of clinicians, patients, and visitors not complying with hand hygiene protocols creates a practice problem for nurses and their patient care. The cause of health care infections, also known as, health care-associated infections (HAIs) are increasing along with the rise of the inability to control or treat infections that are multi-drug resistant. Lack of proper hand hygiene is a major problem in clinical settings sourcing from critical care divisions where the most contaminations are prevalent. This paper will discuss how hand hygiene affects the nursing process and solutions of how to better prevent HAIs within the nursing scope of practice.

This study was intended to prove that hand hygiene practiced according to the CDC guidelines will decrease the incidence of hospital acquired infections. This could not really be proved in this study since the hospitals were not able to maintain improvement in hand hygiene. Health care workers were familiar with guidelines but significant practice changes were not maintained. Some of the infection rates did improve during this time but the correlation with hand hygiene is not consistent. There were other practice changes occurring during this same time and those changes may be responsible for the decreased infection rates.

CDCs clean hands count campaign aim to improve healthcare provide adherence to hand hygiene recommendations, address, myths and misperceptions about hand hygiene and empower patients to play a role in their care by asking or reminding healthcare providers to clean their hands and the most germs that cause serious infections in healthcare are spread by people’s action, every patient is at risk of getting an infection while they are being treated for something else, hand hygiene is a great way to prevent infections and healthcare providers clean their hands less than half of the time they should, good hand washing is the first line of defense against the spread of many illness.

The article titled, “ ‘Harmless’ Things You Should Really Wash Your Hands After Touching” by William Harris, is that every day of people's lives they get germs from all the things they touch.

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

To begin with, the correct hand washing is one of the simplest, but most powerful tools to prevent spreading many of the contagious diseases among humans. With proper technique, the odds of contracting a disease from interactions between humans, animals, and from food, water sources, and other items are significantly decreased. The author of this publication explains some of the circumstances when hand washing is advised. Furthermore, the type of water, soap, hand sanitizers and the proper technique and length of hand washing listed in his paper (Eaves, 2014). To support his views, paraphrases and direct quotes from several professor and microbiologist included in his work. One of the examples where he presented a quote can be seen in the following.

According to world health organisation report (2015), hand washing is the simple act of cleaning the hands with or without water and soap. It requires the use of water and soap to remove dirt form the hands (World Health Organisation, 2015). Evidence has shown that diarrhoea is the leading course of death in young children and it is in every way linked to poor hand hygiene (Ejemot RI, 2008). Diarrhoea according to World Health Organization (WHO) is defined as 3 or more loose or watery stools per day, which is rather not normal as it should be in a normal individual. There are different types of nosocomial infections and according to (LV, 1993) the most common nosocomial infection is the nosocomial diarrhoea depending on the duration of hospitalisation, exposure to antibiotics and poor hand hygiene. Based on researches that have been done and also in recent times, frequent hand washing is thought to be the most effective way of preventing transmission of diseases. However not all studies agreed to the effectiveness of hand washing with soap to reduce the bacteria’s associated with

Recent studies show that at any time, over 1.4 million people worldwide suffer from hospital-acquired infections (Public Health Ontario). In Canada alone, approximately 250 000 patients every year contract infectious micro-organisms from their healthcare providers (Nagel 18). At London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) we take pride in providing world class care in a safe, comfortable environment for patients. However, between 2008 and 2010 the LHSC still had between 20 and 30 per cent non-compliance to proper hand-washing protocol (Nagel 20). This data is very troubling considering it is following the launch of “Just Clean Your Hands” pilot project. As student nurses and volunteers of the LHSC team we are equally responsible to increase hand-washing compliance.

To chase those yucky germs away! (Earthkids, 1999) As main objective, the learner will demonstrate proper handwashing technique. The students will teach the learner reasons for handwashing (to reduce germs transmission among others and decrease illness) and when it is to be performed such as before and after eating and using the bathroom, after playing with toys, when coming home, when they sneeze, cough and blow their nose, and when they are visibly soiled. The learner will also be taught to use soap and water when washing their hands under warm water. The sub-objective will be: the learner will

The Ted Talk video that I chose was the “The Simple Power of Handwashing” by Myriam Sidibe illustrates how if we wash our hands more frequently we would not get sick as often. Sidible compares the number of children that get sick from not washing their hands to a plane crash filled with children. About 600,000 children contract diarrhea or pneumonia because they do not properly wash their hands. The situation I want to investigate is the problem on why the children do not wash their hands because it is very important to do so in order to be healthy. A key factor in not coming down with a cold or diarrhea is to simply wash one’s hands often especially before eating or touching one’s mouth or eyes.

Consciousness to the importance of hand washing with soap is still considered trivial, nevertheless it has a crucial benefit to prevent spreading germs. The increase of child mortality rate caused by the shortage of clean water and poor sanitation could trigger fatal diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia, and respiratory tract infections. The child sometimes being a victim of misinterpretation in hygiene owing to the lack of knowledge by parents. Eventually, mother bears the brunt due to the health issues; the potential for spreading diseases, privacy disturbed, and the high cost of medication.

This assignment will encompass how the results of the personal hygiene and susceptibility microbiology experiments provide a framework for the basis of the NICE Clinical Guidance (CG139) on Infection and how crucial the reasons for the hand wash protocol and hygiene is in all healthcare settings.