{"id":1111,"date":"2017-05-20T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2018-06-19T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:49:59","slug":"my-five-moments-for-hand-hygiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/my-five-moments-for-hand-hygiene\/","title":{"rendered":"My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization (WHO) has included an easy strategy for hand hygiene improvement in the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (Advanced Draft). My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene defines key moments when health care workers ought to be engaging in hand hygiene.<\/p>\n

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\nImage courtesy of WHO:
\nhttp:\/\/www.who.int\/gpsc\/5may\/5Moments_Image.gif<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Using this model, health care workers are reminded to clean their hands at the following times:<\/p>\n

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  1. Before touching a patient<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Before clean\/aseptic procedures<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. After body fluid exposure or risk<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. After touching a patient<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. After touching patient surroundings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Though the instruction may seem like a review of basic principles, it helps overcome misleading language and complicated descriptions. Easy to learn, logical, and widely applicable, My 5 Moments serves as a reminder of one of the most important things any health care worker can do to protect themselves and others from infection: practice proper hand hygiene.<\/p>\n

    Products to Teach Handwashing<\/a><\/p>\n

    Sources:<\/p>\n