Proper hand hygiene is key to reducing the spread of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) in health care facilities. Now more than ever, action needs to be taken to increase compliance in this area to make hospitals a safer place for all. Both hospital staff, patients and their visitors play a vital role in this fight.
We have invested in extensive research to understand the barriers to hand hygiene compliance, and where hand hygiene campaigns have fallen short in the past. The result is an exciting range of hand hygiene materials designed to give health care workers the positive encouragement they deserve, and effectively spread the word of the importance of proper hand washing and drying among hospital patients and visitors.
HAND HYGIENE SAVES LIVES:
PATIENT ADMISSION VIDEO
This video, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), teaches two key points to hospital patients and visitors to help prevent infections: the importance of practicing hand hygiene while in the hospital, and that it is appropriate to ask or remind their healthcare providers to practice hand hygiene as well.
The video begins with a brief introduction on healthcare-associated infections. It is narrated by a nurse character named Gayle who stresses the importance of hand hygiene for both patients as well as healthcare providers.
Click here to download the video.
CDC
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
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