Open All Close All. What is Hand Hygiene? Why Practice Hand Hygiene? Cleaning your hands reduces: The spread of potentially deadly germs to patients The risk of healthcare provider colonization or infection caused by germs acquired from the patient. Washing with Soap and Water. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are the most effective products for reducing the number of germs on the hands of healthcare providers. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are the preferred method for cleaning your hands in most clinical situations.
Wash your hands with soap and water whenever they are visibly dirty, before eating, and after using the restroom. Wash with Soap and Water. Use an Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer. When to Perform Hand Hygiene? When using alcohol-based hand sanitizer: Put product on hands and rub hands together Cover all surfaces until hands feel dry This should take around 20 seconds. Techniques for Washing Hands with Soap and Water. Rinse your hands with water and use disposable towels to dry. Use towel to turn off the faucet.
Avoid using hot water, to prevent drying of skin. Other entities have recommended that cleaning your hands with soap and water should take around 20 seconds. Either time is acceptable. The focus should be on cleaning your hands at the right times. Wear gloves, according to Standard Precautions, when it can be reasonably anticipated that contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials, mucous membranes, non-intact skin, potentially contaminated skin or contaminated equipment could occur.
Gloves are not a substitute for hand hygiene. If your task requires gloves, perform hand hygiene prior to donning gloves, before touching the patient or the patient environment.
Perform hand hygiene immediately after removing gloves. Change gloves and perform hand hygiene during patient care, if gloves become damaged, gloves become visibly soiled with blood or body fluids following a task, moving from work on a soiled body site to a clean body site on the same patient or if another clinical indication for hand hygiene occurs. Never wear the same pair of gloves in the care of more than one patient. Carefully remove gloves to prevent hand contamination.
Remove rings, watches, and bracelets before beginning the surgical hand scrub Remove debris from underneath fingernails using a nail cleaner under running water Performing surgical hand antisepsis using either an antimicrobial soap or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with persistent activity is recommended before donning sterile gloves when performing surgical procedures When performing surgical hand antisepsis using an antimicrobial soap, scrub hands and forearms for the length of time recommended by the manufacturer, usually 2—6 minutes.
Hand rubs are generally less irritating to hands and, in the absence of a sink, are an effective method of cleaning hands. Core slides and accompanying speaker notes provide an overview of the Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings published in Supplement slides provide additional slides that may be used in conjunction with the core slide set.
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