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• Infection Prevention and Control Issues
• Which Type of Soap?
• Pre Hand wash - How clean are your hands?
• Three Types of Hand Hygiene
• Post Hand Wash - How clean are Your Hands?
• National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
• Role of patients and relatives
• Self Assessment Quiz
• Further Resources
• "Glo and Tell" Machine
• Credits

Hand Hygiene Guidelines

Soap or Alchohol Handrub?

Soap

• Found in all clinical areas
• For routine hand hygiene
• For hand disinfection, followed by the application of alcohol handrub for aseptic techniques or when caring for patients with infections

Near Patient Alcohol Handrub

• Found in all clinical areas in either wall mounted dispenser or at the end of each bed in a portable dispenser
• For routine use (on physically clean hands only) before, in between and after all direct patient contact

Alchohol Handrub should not be used when:

• Hands are visibly soiled
• The patient / client is experiencing vomiting or diarrhoea
• The patient / client has clostridium difficile or the norovirus   (NPSA 2008)

Hand Cream

• Found in some clinical areas and in staff rooms.
• For moisturising hands, use at the end of a shift or other 'down time'

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