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1. The How-To’s of Hand Hygiene | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/infection-prevention/hand-hygiene/hand-hygiene-slides.html
   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. 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.

3. Urinary Catheter Types and Care for Residents With Catheters | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/indwelling-urinary-catheter-use/catheter-insertion/unlicensed-staff/unlicensed-catheter-slides.html
   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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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?

8. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4y_combo_nqi03-bsi-bestpractices.pdf
   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.

9. USER GUIDE: Hand Hygiene Observational Audit Data Tracking Tool for Use in Skilled Nursing Facilities (pdf file)
   patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/hand-hygiene-audit-tool-userguide.pdf
   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. 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

11. 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.

12. 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?

13. 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.

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. 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?

16. Catheter Care and Maintenance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/indwelling-urinary-catheter-use/catheter-care/slides.html
    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.

17. Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - Hand Hygiene Observational Audit Tracking Tool  (XLSX, 477 KB) and User Guide  (PDF, 1 MB) This pre-programmed … Excel workbook compiles hand hygiene observational data by individual, shift, position, location, and … department to help staff regularly review opportunities for hand hygiene performance improvement. … that can be implemented to support increased compliance with infection prevention practices, including hand

18. The Role of Leadership in Quality Improvement Efforts (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - But it’s also most effective when the leader actually goes in and gets their hands dirty sometimes and … Carla Zema So it’s important and it’s very helpful when the leader does engage and kind of gets their hands … in our organization here in Boston that was focused in on trying to improve infection control and hand … So when the hand hygiene folks brought the data forward and said “here’s how we’re doing on hand hygiene

19. Module 4: How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization (doc file)
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    August 31, 2017 - Engaging the buy-in and ongoing participation of staff members who are involved in hands-on care is crucial … RNs were required to attend a mandatory 3-hour training: a 2-hour didactic training and a 1-hour hands-on … The 1-hour hands-on portion included: · Mockups. · Three scenarios.

20. Summary of Key Recommendations for Administering NH-CAHPS Long-Term Resident Survey (doc file)
    patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/nh/nursing-home-long-stay-eng-651a.doc
    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