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Healthy Living 101

Healthy Living 101. Hand Hygiene by: Peggy Shaw, MSN/ED, BSN, RN, OCN

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Healthy Living 101

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  1. Healthy Living 101 Hand Hygiene by: Peggy Shaw, MSN/ED, BSN, RN, OCN With the start of school, and the flu season fast approaching, I feel a lesson on hand hygiene is of utmost importance. Did you know that the single most important intervention to preventing the spread of disease and infection is hand hygiene? You cannot eliminate all disease causing agents, but you can certainly reduce them. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hand hygiene applies to either using plain soap and water or a waterless alcohol-based product. If your hands are visibly soiled or if you come in contact with blood, body fluids, or an antibiotic resistant bug such as MRSA, VRSA, VRE, etc., soap and water is recommended. It is also best to use soap and water before eating and after using the restroom. Otherwise, a waterless alcohol-based rub is effective. So, why do we need to discuss such a simple thing as hand hygiene? Because schools are a harboring place for germs, and people have such close contact to others in homes, churches, stores, workplaces, etc., that the chances of contracting or spreading germs that cause the flu and other illnesses is highly likely. Germs are spread by hand-to-hand, hand-to-nose, hand-to-mouth, and hand-to-eye. Germs can also be picked up from touching contaminated areas like countertops, doorknobs, handles, and desks. This ‘simple’ task is something we should have learned early on in childhood but all too often, has not become a habit. Studies have shown various reasons why people either do not perform hand hygiene at all or consistently or really know the proper procedure for effective hand hygiene. The reasons range from lack of time, to ignorance to the proper procedure and importance, to individual habits. Consider changing your hand hygiene and becoming a consistent hand washer in an effort to stay ‘bug’ free this school year and flu season because PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE! Watch this short video to learn proper hand hygiene.

  2. Watch this short video to learn proper hand hygiene.

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