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61. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Partnering With Patients and Families To Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2022 - Suggested Strategies • Educate patients and families regarding the importance of hand hygiene, taking … care to emphasize the need for hand hygiene anytime a surface has been touched. … Tell them that if they do not see providers clean their hands after touching a surface, they should … help to show germs on hands) for patients and families to practice hand hygiene, allowing them to … see directly the effectiveness of their hand hygiene techniques.

62. Clean Equipment and Environment Promotes Safe Resident Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Slide 8: Hand Hygiene 4,5 Good hand hygiene is essential for catheter care and infection prevention … Just Clean Your Hands educational resources. Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion . … Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings. … Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings. … Transfer of vancomycin-resistant enterococci via health care worker hands.

63. No More CAUTI: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (May 5, 2015) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Image: Photo of woman at bedside of patient holding hands with patient. … Inappropriate Catheter Indications Limited mobility or debility Catheters do not prevent falls Image: Hand … Image: Hand holding a filled urine specimen container. … Catheter Indications Patient of family request Educate patient and family on catheter risks Image: Hand … Patient unable to provide clean catch urine Image: Hand holding a filled urine specimen container.

64. It Takes a Team: Preventing Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - . • Clean hands when moving from a dirty to a clean task on the same patient or after touching the patient … Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization Environment of Care Safe Injection Practices • Clean hands … Hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent infections. … Health care personnel will clean their hands before and after patient care. … to prevent surgical site and other infections at ASCs are— ▶ ASK staff if they have washed their hands

65. Training Module 3 Activity Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - or goggles Simulated germs (e.g., chocolate syrup, washable paint, povidone-iodine) Waste bin Hand … hygiene products (sink with soap/water and hand sanitizer) Prizes Directions Ask for a volunteer … (Remember the volunteer should always start with proper hand hygiene.) … during resident care by placing a small amount of the simulated germ product on the volunteer’s gloved hands … PPE removal to make sure it is done in the proper order and that he/she does not contaminate his/her hands

66. TeamSTEPPS Specialty Scenarios: ICU (pdf file)
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    March 19, 2014 - The infant receiving the IV is experiencing poor blood flow to her right hand. … She applies warm soaks to the hand to alleviate the condition, but the condition does not improve. … Gangrene develops, and the fingers of the infant’s right hand are amputated. … Information regarding poor blood flow to the hand and the state of the IV is not discussed in the handoff … The physician should have been summoned to view and assess the hand.

67. Understanding the Role of Health Care Facility Design in the Acquisition and Prevention of HAIs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - The transmission of pathogens is affected by variations and practices of human behaviors, such as hand … providing barriers to interrupt transmission events, and influencing human behavior, such as by promoting hand … A transmission event is direct or indirect contact, including transient carriage (e.g., hands of a health … Opportunities to interrupt transmission from a colonized or infected host include hand hygiene, other … hygiene through strategic placement of alcohol hand-rub dispensers in highly visible locations.

68. TeamSTEPPS® Instructor Manual: Specialty Scenarios | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2014 - The infant receiving the IV is experiencing poor blood flow to her right hand. … She applies warm soaks to the hand to alleviate the condition, but the condition does not improve. … Gangrene develops, and the fingers of the infant's right hand are amputated. … Information regarding poor blood flow to the hand and the state of the IV is not discussed in the handoff … The physician should have been summoned to view and assess the hand.

69. Appendix 6: Central Line Maintenance Audit Form | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2018 - Was proper hand hygiene used by all personnel involved in line care for this patient (i.e., hand washing … with soap and water or with alcohol-based hand sanitizer)?

70. Making Healthcare Safer III: Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2020 - Clostridium difficile : Hand Hygiene CDI rates Staff compliance Hand contamination 11 studies … Studies that measured hand hygiene and CDI patient outcomes were quasi-experimental, and showed large … The most common component was environmental cleaning, followed by hand hygiene, and patient isolation … hand hygiene compliance, but there are many effective campaign materials to choose from. … The biggest barriers to hand hygiene compliance are: (1) awareness that an opportunity for hand hygiene

71. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2022 - saline drops and bulb suctioning for infants Prevention • Common cold viruses are spread by hand … To avoid transmission to others, encourage frequent hand washing, cough and sneeze into a tissue or … into the arm rather than the hand, wear a face mask, and avoid touching the face

72. Chapter-6 - Carbapenem-Resistant-Enterobacteriaceae (pdf file)
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    September 26, 2019 - DalBen et al., 201620 • Contact precautions • Hand hygiene • Compliance monitoring of hand hygiene … Poor compliance with infection control measures such as contact precautions and hand hygiene led to … Mathematical modeling of the interventions suggested that, assuming 60-80% hand hygiene compliance … with blood or bodily fluids, and gloves in case of lesions of the healthcare worker’s hands. … Authors did not measure hand hygiene and CP compliance.

73. Organizational Behavior Management in Health Care: Applications for Large-Scale Improvements in Patient Safety (pdf file)
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    January 29, 2008 - Moreover, nonbehavioral attempts to increase hand washing among caregivers suggest that hand-hygiene … • Peer observational feedback Geller 17 Infection-control error • Hand washing • “Hands-free … Using feedback, goal setting, and task clarification to increase the use of the “hands free” technique … Effect of an evidence-based hand washing policy on hand washing rates and false-positive coagulase … The clean your hands campaign: Critiquing policy and evidence base.

74. PowerPoint Presentation
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    October 01, 2015 - Understaffing 9 Lack of Resources: Strategies to Minimize Adequate supplies: over-the-bed tables hand … Adequate facilities for hand hygiene 10 Components of Aseptic Insertion Set up a sterile field … Perform hand hygiene immediately before and after insertion. Use sterile gloves, drapes, sponges.

75. Intramuscular Injections – Best Practices for Safe Vaccine Administration in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2021 - Complete Hand Hygiene. Before giving a vaccine, complete proper hand hygiene. … If you are wearing gloves, change them and perform hand hygiene between each vaccination. … Keep your hands clean from vaccine preparation through administration and disposal. … Perform hand hygiene.

76. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
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    March 01, 2017 - DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1426.3768] Hand Hygiene 1. … Are alcohol-based hand rubs superior to soap and water? … Yes, if hands are not visibly soiled, use an alcohol-based hand rub for routinely decontaminating hands … are visibly dirty or are visibly soiled with blood or other body fluids, wash hands with soap and water … Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings.

77. Summary of Key Recommendations for Administering NH-CAHPS Long-Term Resident Survey (doc file)
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    March 09, 2007 - [HAND R SHOWCARD 1: 0-10] Now let’s talk about how you feel about things at this nursing home and how … _______ (0-10) [HAND R SHOWCARD 2: YES/NO/SOMETIMES] For the next questions, you can answer yes, no … 1( YES 2( NO 3( SOMETIMES [HAND R SHOWCARD 3: DEFINITELY NO/PROBABLY NO/PROBABLY YES/DEFINITELY … 1( OFTEN 2( SOMETIMES 3( RARELY 4( NEVER [HAND R SHOWCARD 5: EXCELLENT/VERY GOOD/GOOD/FAIR/POOR] … 1( EXCELLENT 2( VERY GOOD 3( GOOD 4( FAIR 5( POOR [HAND R SHOWCARD 6: 0-10] These next questions

78. 4 Tk2 T2-Antibiotic Pocket Cards (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - • Perform hand hygiene with soap and water (alcohol does not kill C. difficile spores). … • Use appropriate hand hygiene before and after all resident contacts (soap and water, or waterless … • Use appropriate hand hygiene before and after all resident contacts (soap and water, or waterless

79. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - The checklist should have all of the following4,6-7:  Date, start time, end time, hands washed … o Providers (including any assistants) should wash their hands before and after palpating catheter … o After inserting and dressing the catheter site, remove gown and gloves and then wash hands. …  Perform hand hygiene and put on clean gloves. …  Repeat hand hygiene and don sterile gloves.  Remove sutures.

80. PowerPoint Presentation
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    March 01, 2017 - In other words, they are transmitted by our hands, a contaminated surface or a piece of equipment that … UTIs) Risk factors Use of common measuring device between residents with indwelling urinary catheters Hands … Just Clean Your Hands educational resources. … Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings. … Transfer of vancomycin-resistant enterococci via health care worker hands.