Service Name: Hand Hygiene Observer and Promotion Program
When: Flexible timing within the month to suit your schedule.
Procedure/Description: Hand Hygiene visits needed to help continue to maintain the importance of hand hygiene within a resident/patient caregiver setting in the promotion of proper hand hygiene practices. Proper hand hygiene protects residents/patients and care providers by reducing the spread of infections and preventing deaths.
Training is provided to overview:
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The Hand Hygiene Program including the moments when hand hygiene should occur,
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The importance of Hand Hygiene in infection control,
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Provision of direction as to how to make an observation and how to use the observation tool.
- Please contact Tanya anne for more information at tanneball@sjsudbury.com
