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61. Appendix A: Family Information Packet (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2013 - 10 3 15 4 20 Return to Appendix Contents Preventing Infection Everyone must wash their hands … or use hand sanitizer before and after they touch your baby. … Wash your hands frequently. Avoid crowds. Have your child immunized. … Wash your hands before and after handling a baby.

62. 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?

63. Appendix D, Table D2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Never drop hands below level of patient's body. … Hands cannot leave this area. Armpits and back are not sterile. … Bringing hands below waist or touching non-sterile item breaks sterile field. … Must not come down over hand. … Wash hands   Pump in, pump out. Yes.  

64. 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.

65. Measure 1, Section 2, Attachment 2 (pdf file)
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    January 17, 2017 - Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat when sitting still is expected. 2.

66. 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.

67. Preventing Infections in Endoscopic Procedures (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Implementation Guide Empower patients and families to insist that all team members wash their hands … before providing care; encourage patients and families to perform hand hygiene as well.

68. 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

69. 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.

70. 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.

71. 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.

72. Catheter-Care-Quiz (doc file)
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    March 01, 2017 - Hand hygiene does not need to be performed if you are wearing gloves. ☐ True ☐ False 3. … She performs hand hygiene and dons gloves before entering Bill Board’s room. … Sue discards her gloves and performs hand hygiene before leaving Bill’s room. AHRQ Pub.

73. Appendix O. Part 2—Disinfection/Sterilization Record Keeping: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - the scopes are handled, they can actually become contaminated just from the bacteria of personnel's hands … That prevents the bacteria from the caregiver's hands going on to the scope. … high-level disinfectant, that it is always handled with non-latex gloves to prevent bacteria from our hands

74. Influenza (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2022 - patients they can avoid infection with influenza and other respiratory virus infections by washing their hands

75. 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.

76. Indwelling Urinary Catheter Insertion Facilitator Notes (doc file)
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    April 01, 2022 - Competency refers to the knowledge and the skills necessary for the specific task at hand. … Remember that tongs provide an additional barrier between the inserter’s hand and the patient. … To keep to their workflow routines, clinicians may not use hand gel. … Wall mounted hand hygiene products must meet fire code requirements. … Mindfulness is the process of carefully assessing the task at hand, the potential harm involved when

77. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - Training and Tools for Implementation : Use these hands-on resources to train and guide your ambulatory

78. 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

79. 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?

80. 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.