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1. The How-To’s of Hand Hygiene | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2017 - Slide 6: Soap and Water Hand Washing 4,6,7 Hand Hygiene Technique Wet hands with water. … Apply soap to palm of hand. Rub hands together, covering all surfaces for at least 15 seconds. … Rinse hands with water. … Slide 7: Notes About Hand Hygiene Products 4,7 ABHRs/gels are preferred for hand hygiene when hands … Hand hygiene protects your hands and the environment from being contaminated.

2. Guide-Infection-Prevention (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2017 - ▪ Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, or use an alcohol-based hand rub or … alcohol hand wipe, covering all surfaces of the hands. … BASIC BACKGROUND Hand hygiene refers to the practice of removing or killing germs on hands so that … To practice hand hygiene, keep your hands clean by either washing with soap and water or using an alcohol-based … ▪ Wash hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand rub before

3. Collection of Microbiological Cultures (pdf file)
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   June 01, 2021 - Wash your hands and put on new sterile gloves before obtaining your specimen. 2. … Wash hands and use new gloves. 2. Obtain an early morning specimen. 3.

4. Urinary Catheter Types and Care for Residents With Catheters | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2017 - Slide 5: Hygiene and Standard Precautions Assisting the Nurse With Catheter Insertion 2 Wash your hands … Remove gown and gloves and wash hands! 2. Willson M, Wilde M, Webb M, et al. … Slide 7: Maintenance Avoiding Common Mistakes 3 Wash hands BEFORE and AFTER any contact with urinary … Certified nursing assistants are daily hands on the "front line" between residents and families, and

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 6 Tk1 T3-Resident Information Sheet Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Final (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2016 - people or to places on your body where the bacteria might cause an infection: • Always wash your hands … • Remind your visitors to wash their hands when they come in to and leave the nursing home.

8. Distribute Your Health Care Quality Report to Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2017 - comparative information to distribute, you need to be thinking about how and when to get it into the hands … What channels can you use to get the information into the hands of your audience?

9. USER GUIDE: Hand Hygiene Observational Audit Data Tracking Tool for Use in Skilled Nursing Facilities (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2021 - using soap and water, using alcohol-based hand rub, or both. • Identify the specific steps in the hand … Items #1- #8 relate to hand hygiene with soap and water, items #9 and #10 relate to hand hygiene with … alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR). … and water and hand hygiene with ABHR audit data recording. … Figure 70 - Hand hygiene compliance rates by job title.

10. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2016 - The checklist should have all of the following12-14:  Date, start time, end time, hands washed prior … ○ Providers (including any assistants) should wash their hands before and after palpating catheter … ○ 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.

11. Apr. 9-11: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - The remainder of the second and entire third day is designed to hands-on sessions in 3 programming languages

12. Communication Strategies To Promote Resident Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Peck while Mary is washing her hands Slide 15: Resident Scenario #2 With the Use of CUS 3 CUS Words … I am uncomfortable without both of us washing our hands before repositioning Mrs. Peck. … It could be a safety issue if we don't wash our hands first and Mrs.

13. TeamSTEPPS 2.0 Module 3: Communication
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    December 01, 2005 - Visual cues can also serve as reminders, such as the use of signs reminding staff to wash their hands … These include SBAR, call-outs, check-backs, and hand-offs. … mind what a hand-off is. … It's not adequate just to hand that tool to somebody. … What went well in the hand-off?

14. Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2019 - Hand Hygiene Hand hygiene is one of the most effective skills staff can perform to prevent infections … , including the products, procedures, and strategies to implement and sustain hand hygiene programs. … Supplemental materials include hand hygiene activities to perform with staff, and a quiz and answer key … The skills activity guide has several scenarios that involve observing for proper hand hygiene before … The hand hygiene bundle has more information.

15. TeamSTEPPS Specialty Scenarios: Ambulatory Care (pdf file)
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    March 19, 2014 - He does not verbalize this order to the nurse and hands the chart to the clerk. … She recently attended an educational session on infection control techniques and the importance of hand … Tsu, went from patient to patient without washing his hands. … Tsu in the corridor and addresses him saying that she attended the hand-washing seminar and noticed … Tsu appears surprised by the comment but sheepishly agrees that hand washing is very important, and

16. Breaking Down Barriers to Aseptic Catheter Insertion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Contamination of sterile field 22 (27%) Nurse touched items on sterile field with bare non-sterile hands … Breach of sterile barrier 31 (38%) Sterile gloved hand used to swab genitalia (without tongs); … same hand used to insert catheter. … Slide 8 Barriers to Aseptic Insertion Technique Inconsistent or inconvenient locations for hand … Perform hand hygiene immediately before and after insertion.

17. OBC PPT Q4
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    January 01, 2018 - Smith saw his rheumatologist for nodules/cysts to his hands and had an X-ray done and he has stiffness … to hands. … The rheumatologist didn't have anything to offer in regards to what the nodule/cysts to hands were.

18. Catheter Care and Maintenance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Slide 4: Hand Hygiene and Glove Use 4,5 Gloves play a key role in preventing hand contamination—but … do NOT replace hand hygiene Perform hand hygiene and wear gloves immediately before — Accessing … Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. … Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene. … Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene.

19. TeamSTEPPS® Instructor Manual: Specialty Scenarios | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - He does not verbalize this order to the nurse and hands the chart to the clerk. … She recently attended an educational session on infection control techniques and the importance of hand … Tsu, went from patient to patient without washing his hands. Later that morning, she encounters Dr. … Tsu in the corridor and addresses him saying that she attended the hand-washing seminar and noticed he … Tsu appears surprised by the comment but sheepishly agrees that hand washing is very important, and he

20. Nursing Home Workplace Safety Resource List (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2023 - -(ihs)/hand- hygiene/monitoring/9789241598606_eng.pdf? … The How-To’s of Hand Hygiene: AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI https://www.ahrq.gov … /hand-hygiene-slides.html AHRQ created this training module for hand hygiene in long-term care facilities … of infections. • When and how to perform hand hygiene. • Key hand hygiene practices for the prevention … /hand-hygiene-slides.html https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2006-117/pdfs/2006-117.pdf?