Here are 10 recent Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on hand hygiene which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you can use to improve your hand hygiene efforts and compliance.
As Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, notes in "12 Questions to Ask to Ensure an Effective Hand Hygiene Program," you will want to make sure visual hand hygiene reminders are changed on a regular basis to ensure staff members do not become accustomed to them and ignore their messages. Note: Clicking a link will open the report in a new tab.
1. Handwashing Reminder Door Sign
2. Hand Hygiene Recognition Program
3. 'Patient's Guide to Hand Hygiene' Flyer
4. 'C. the DIFFerence Handwashing Can Make' Brochure
5. Handwashing Statistics Poster
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6. 'Effective Disinfection: It's in Your Hands' Poster
7. Hand Hygiene/Glove Use Observation Tool
8. 'Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers' Brochure
9. Handwashing Poster for Kids
10. 'Clean Hands Save Lives' Flyer
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