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Hi, guys,
welcome to hand hygiene.
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So this topic you may think,
"Okay, I know plenty about
hand hygiene", right.
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But let's take a few
minutes to talk about it.
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You know, you see posters
everywhere, campaigns out there,
you hear lots of talk
about lots of hand hygiene.
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But it's really important for
us as healthcare providers
to take this small step in
keeping our patients safe.
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Now, according to the CDC,
or Center for Disease Control,
you may hear of them a lot.
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On average health
care providers,
they'll only clean their hands
about half the time they should.
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Okay, so if you really
think about this,
if we're in an acute care or
hospital, for example,
or taking care of sick patients,
think about all the
things that we can touch,
and we're not cleaning
our hands the whole time.
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That could be blood, body fluid,
feces that could be surfaces.
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There's lots of things that
we come in contact with,
and then we go see other patients,
so this is a real problem.
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Now, about any given day,
when we're in the hospital,
1 in 31 hospital patients has at least
1 healthcare associated infection.
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Let's take a minute here.
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What that means is if a
patient's in the hospital,
there's a good chance they
could get an infection
because we nursing or health
care providers gave it to them.
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How do we prevent that?
Well, we wash our hands.
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Now, when we talk about hand
hygiene, when do we need to do it?
There's lots of times
and lots of points.
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So let's talk about those.
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So really just before
entering or exiting the room.
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So just think about, "Hey, if I go
into a room or out, wash your hands."
Before any procedure
is really important,
and definitely after
body fluid exposure.
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And lastly,
before or after touching a patient.
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You may think, "Okay,
why do I've got to do it before?"
Well, if you think about it,
again, as healthcare providers,
we may see multiple
patients a day.
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So it's really important
that we clean our hands
right before we come in
contact with another patient.