Hand Hygiene: Cleaning Up Our Act

Award(s):
Hesca Awards, 2003 Silver

Proper hand hygiene is the most important and effective practice healthcare professionals can do to prevent the transmission of healthcare-associated infections.

This program produced in association with:

Learning Objective: To educate healthcare professionals on the CDC’s Hand Hygiene Guideline which identifies practices that prevent the transmission of infectious agents and minimizes the risk of changing the ecology and health of the skin.

Featuring Guideline authors Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC, John Boyce, MD and Didier Pittet, MD, MS, this training program is sure to answer all of your questions on the CDC Hand Hygiene Guideline!

• Goals of proper hand hygiene
• Methods for increasing adherence
• Hand antisepsis and handwashing
• Soaps
• Skin integrity
• Glove and nail protocols
• Hand care and protection

• New Employee Orientation
• Annual In-Service
• Nursing Educationv
• Remedial/Risk Reduction Training
• General Staff Education
• Medical Staff

This program funded in-part through an unrestricted educational grant provided by

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