Hand Hygiene to improve patient safety
As a region we've been working to improve hand hygiene, which is the simplest way to reduce the spread of infection. Hand hygiene is not a local or provincial issue, but an international one, and the World Health Organization had recommendations for hand hygiene in health care (you can read them here).
"Always keep your hands clean so you're not spreading germs; and it's easy" says Molly Blake, Regional Director for Infection Prevention and Control. "If your hands are clean, you're not eating germs with your lunch or taking them home. You're also not taking them from one place/person and dropping them off somewhere else (or on someone else). In the whole scheme of things hand hygiene isn't 'sexy' . . . it also isn't incredibly complicated. Just be sure to clean your hands."
Clean hands save lives, so clean your hands. Make it easy for people you work with to clean their hands. Set an example for hand hygiene in your workplace and encourage your coworkers to use best practices.