Infection control of hands [Week 3]

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IMG_1757The ADA guidelines say you need in your infection control manual…

Information and specifications in the manual must include:
• methods of hand hygiene (both routine and surgical);

SmartDentist subscribers: Go now and delete you old hand hygiene policy and go to the Common Policy Library and select the latest Hand hygiene Policy. It will come with links to

  1. Hand Hygiene Australia ;
  2. My favourite youtube video on Hand Hygiene;
  3.  WHO: Hand wash and Hand rub poster;
  4. Donning surgical gloves (Ansell site)
  5. Latex allergy help site.

TASK for this week
Download the Hand hygiene poster; save it to a UBS; go to Office Works and get a copy printed for each wash sink (0.88 cents per copy) and laminate it (1.75 per copy).
Get some blue tack and put them up at work!
(See picture above: I really do do what I say. Here is a selfie of me with the 5 posters – one for each surgery and one for the steri-room)