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How to prevent the spread of infection as a health care provider I. Infection control in health care is a very important detail in health care provider’s duties.
A. Two of the simplest ways to prevent infection control is to wear gloves and wash hands.
B. There are correct and incorrect ways to wash your hands and remove gloves.
II. Being prepared is the first step to correctly wash your hands.
A. You will need to have soap available.
B. Paper towels need to be within reach.
C. Having a trash can nearby will help with this process.
III. To begin washing your hands you will first need to wet your hands.
A. Make sure the water is running down your hands to your fingertips.
IV. The next …show more content…
step in correctly washing your hands would be applying soap to your hands.
A. Rub your hand vigorously together until the soap is all over your hands.
B. Make sure you wash between your fingers, around any rings, and under your finger nails.
C. Continue washing like this for at least thirty seconds.
V. For the next step you must rinse the soap from your hands. A. While putting your hands under the running water makes sure the water is running down to your fingertips.
B. Do not let the water run up toward your wrists.
VI. The most important step is drying your hands.
A. After rinsing your hands do not turn the water off.
B. With a clean dry paper towel pat from your fingertips up to your wrists.
C. Get another clean and dry paper towel to turn the knob off on the water facet.
VII. Wearing gloves protects the health care provider from blood borne pathogens, such as HIV and hepatitis B and C.
A. To remove gloves grab the palm of the glove on both hand and pull downward until the glove comes off.
B. Place the glove in the palm of your gloved hand.
C. With the ungloved hand place your index finger inside the wrist of the gloved hand, and pull downward until the glove is inside out.
D. Throw the gloves into the trash.
E. Wearing gloves is not a replacement for hand washing, so you must practice hand hygiene immediately after removing gloves.
VIII. As a health care provider infection control is a major part of your duty.
A. By using these two simple interventions you are protecting yourself from blood borne pathogens.
B. You are also preventing the spread of infection in your facility by correctly washing your hands.
C. Most people think that they are washing their hands correctly, but most are not.
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How to prevent the spread of infection as a health care provider
Infection control in health care is a very important detail in a health care provider’s duties. Transmission of health care associated pathogens most often occurs through the contaminated hands of a health care worker. Two of the simplest ways to prevent such infections are undermined. Simply wearing gloves and hand washing are the most simple ways to control infection. But did you know there are correct and incorrect ways of performing these tasks? Being prepared is the first step to correctly wash your hands. Although most settings already have them available, you want to be sure you have soap and paper towels at ease of access. Now to begin washing your hands you must first turn the water on. When your hands are already contaminated you may turn the water on with your bare hands. Wet your hands in the water, but do not touch the inside walls of the sink. While wetting your hands be sure the water is running down your hands to your fingertips. After you have wet your hands, you must put the soap onto your hands. Rubbing your hand vigorously together, make sure you are washing between your fingers, under and around any rings, and be sure to wash under your finger nails. Continue doing this for at least thirty seconds. After you are through comes the next step, rinsing the soap from your hands. While not touching the walls or anything on the sink, run your hands under the water. Once again make sure the water is running down your hand to your fingertips. Not up your arms to your wrist. Once all the soap is off of your hands, do not turn the water off. The most important step comes next, drying your hands without recontamination. Drying your hands without recontamination can sometimes be complicated. With a clean, dry paper towel pat your hands dry starting at your fingertips. Slowly pat from your fingertips down to your wrists. Since you did not wash your arms they are contaminated, so you want to dry from the cleanest area to the dirtiest area. Once your hands are dry get a clean, dry paper towel to turn the knob on the facet off. Since you turned the knob on with your contaminated hands the knob is still contaminated. Once you throw the paper towel in the trash without touching the trash can, you have successfully washed your hands. Wearing gloves during care is an additional intervention to help reduce transmission of infectious agents.
When gloves are worn properly the help to protect the health care worker from exposure to blood borne infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. However, gloves must be used properly. Gloves can become contaminated during care and must be removed or changed when moving from a contaminated area to a clean area on the same patient. Gloved hands can also become contaminated due to tiny punctures in the glove material or during glove removal. Therefor hand hygiene must be performed immediately after glove removal. The use of gloves is important but does not replace proper hand washing. To prevent contaminating yourself there is a particular way to remove your gloves. There really is no way of being prepared for glove removal, just being sure there is a trash can nearby. While wearing the gloves you should grab the palm of either hand, with your gloves hand. Pull downward with the palm part of the glove, until the glove comes off of your hand inside out. Place the contaminated inside out glove into the palm of your gloved hand. Then place your index finger inside the wrist of the glove on your hand, and pull the glove off. Both gloves should be inside out in a ball together. Once you have removed the gloves place them into the trash, and preform proper hand
washing. As a health care provider infection control is a major part of your duty. By using these two simple interventions, you can protect yourself from blood borne pathogens while preventing the spread of infection through your facility. The average health care provider washes their hands eight hundred times in an eight hour shift. Although most people think that they are washing the hands correctly, most are not.
A. Two of the simplest ways to prevent infection control is to wear gloves and wash hands.
B. There are correct and incorrect ways to wash your hands and remove gloves.
II. Being prepared is the first step to correctly wash your hands.
A. You will need to have soap available.
B. Paper towels need to be within reach.
C. Having a trash can nearby will help with this process.
III. To begin washing your hands you will first need to wet your hands.
A. Make sure the water is running down your hands to your fingertips.
IV. The next …show more content…
step in correctly washing your hands would be applying soap to your hands.
A. Rub your hand vigorously together until the soap is all over your hands.
B. Make sure you wash between your fingers, around any rings, and under your finger nails.
C. Continue washing like this for at least thirty seconds.
V. For the next step you must rinse the soap from your hands. A. While putting your hands under the running water makes sure the water is running down to your fingertips.
B. Do not let the water run up toward your wrists.
VI. The most important step is drying your hands.
A. After rinsing your hands do not turn the water off.
B. With a clean dry paper towel pat from your fingertips up to your wrists.
C. Get another clean and dry paper towel to turn the knob off on the water facet.
VII. Wearing gloves protects the health care provider from blood borne pathogens, such as HIV and hepatitis B and C.
A. To remove gloves grab the palm of the glove on both hand and pull downward until the glove comes off.
B. Place the glove in the palm of your gloved hand.
C. With the ungloved hand place your index finger inside the wrist of the gloved hand, and pull downward until the glove is inside out.
D. Throw the gloves into the trash.
E. Wearing gloves is not a replacement for hand washing, so you must practice hand hygiene immediately after removing gloves.
VIII. As a health care provider infection control is a major part of your duty.
A. By using these two simple interventions you are protecting yourself from blood borne pathogens.
B. You are also preventing the spread of infection in your facility by correctly washing your hands.
C. Most people think that they are washing their hands correctly, but most are not.
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How to prevent the spread of infection as a health care provider
Infection control in health care is a very important detail in a health care provider’s duties. Transmission of health care associated pathogens most often occurs through the contaminated hands of a health care worker. Two of the simplest ways to prevent such infections are undermined. Simply wearing gloves and hand washing are the most simple ways to control infection. But did you know there are correct and incorrect ways of performing these tasks? Being prepared is the first step to correctly wash your hands. Although most settings already have them available, you want to be sure you have soap and paper towels at ease of access. Now to begin washing your hands you must first turn the water on. When your hands are already contaminated you may turn the water on with your bare hands. Wet your hands in the water, but do not touch the inside walls of the sink. While wetting your hands be sure the water is running down your hands to your fingertips. After you have wet your hands, you must put the soap onto your hands. Rubbing your hand vigorously together, make sure you are washing between your fingers, under and around any rings, and be sure to wash under your finger nails. Continue doing this for at least thirty seconds. After you are through comes the next step, rinsing the soap from your hands. While not touching the walls or anything on the sink, run your hands under the water. Once again make sure the water is running down your hand to your fingertips. Not up your arms to your wrist. Once all the soap is off of your hands, do not turn the water off. The most important step comes next, drying your hands without recontamination. Drying your hands without recontamination can sometimes be complicated. With a clean, dry paper towel pat your hands dry starting at your fingertips. Slowly pat from your fingertips down to your wrists. Since you did not wash your arms they are contaminated, so you want to dry from the cleanest area to the dirtiest area. Once your hands are dry get a clean, dry paper towel to turn the knob on the facet off. Since you turned the knob on with your contaminated hands the knob is still contaminated. Once you throw the paper towel in the trash without touching the trash can, you have successfully washed your hands. Wearing gloves during care is an additional intervention to help reduce transmission of infectious agents.
When gloves are worn properly the help to protect the health care worker from exposure to blood borne infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. However, gloves must be used properly. Gloves can become contaminated during care and must be removed or changed when moving from a contaminated area to a clean area on the same patient. Gloved hands can also become contaminated due to tiny punctures in the glove material or during glove removal. Therefor hand hygiene must be performed immediately after glove removal. The use of gloves is important but does not replace proper hand washing. To prevent contaminating yourself there is a particular way to remove your gloves. There really is no way of being prepared for glove removal, just being sure there is a trash can nearby. While wearing the gloves you should grab the palm of either hand, with your gloves hand. Pull downward with the palm part of the glove, until the glove comes off of your hand inside out. Place the contaminated inside out glove into the palm of your gloved hand. Then place your index finger inside the wrist of the glove on your hand, and pull the glove off. Both gloves should be inside out in a ball together. Once you have removed the gloves place them into the trash, and preform proper hand
washing. As a health care provider infection control is a major part of your duty. By using these two simple interventions, you can protect yourself from blood borne pathogens while preventing the spread of infection through your facility. The average health care provider washes their hands eight hundred times in an eight hour shift. Although most people think that they are washing the hands correctly, most are not.