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Improving Attendance Through Healthy Hand Hygiene

Improving Attendance Through Healthy Hand Hygiene. www.cisnc.org. Health-Related Absenteeism. Infectious diseases account for millions of school days lost each year for kindergarten through 12th-grade public school students in the United States:

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Improving Attendance Through Healthy Hand Hygiene

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  1. Improving Attendance Through Healthy Hand Hygiene www.cisnc.org

  2. Health-Related Absenteeism Infectious diseases account for millions of school days lost each year for kindergarten through 12th-grade public school students in the United States: • 40% of children aged 5–17 years missed 3 or more school days in the past year because of illness or injury. • Nearly 22 million school days are lost each year due to colds alone. • 38 million school days are lost each year due to the influenza virus. (CDC: Retrieved from: (http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/infectious/index.htm )

  3. Importance of a Healthy School Environment Schools inherently foster the transmission of infections because many people: • Spend extended periods of time in a close setting • Share supplies and equipment

  4. Fostering a Healthier School Environment Schools can improve the overall health of the environment and reduce the spread of infectious illnesses by following some CDC recommendations: • Encouraging sick students and staff to stay home and seek medical attention for severe illness. • Facilitating hand hygiene by supplying soap and paper towels, and teaching good hand hygiene practices. • Being vigilant about cleaning and disinfecting classroom materials and surfaces.

  5. Fostering a Healthier School Environment Schools can improve the overall health of the environment and reduce the spread of infectious illnesses by following some CDC recommendations (cont.): • Providing messages in daily announcements about preventing infectious disease. • Adopting healthy practices such as safe handling of food and use of standard precautions when handling body fluids and excretions. • Encouraging students and staff to get annual influenza vaccinations.

  6. Clean Hands – Healthy Hands

  7. Hand Washing The CDC suggests a number of instances when individuals should wash their hands, including: • Before eating • After using the toilet • After blowing your nose, sneezing, or coughing For a full list of times when individuals should wash their hands and instructions on proper hand washing technique, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html

  8. Hand Sanitizing Supplement • Proper hand washing technique is the first line of defense in reducing the spread of infectious illnesses. • Hand sanitizing stations in the classroom can be an effective alternative when hand washing is not possible. • Students should be trained in the proper use of hand sanitizers. • Protocols should be implemented to protect students who may have reactions (e.g., allergies, eczema-related complications) to the use of hand sanitizers.

  9. Glossary • Germs (pathogens): types of microbes that can cause disease. • Microbes: tiny living organisms that may or may not cause disease. • Influenza: a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system — your nose, throat and lungs. • Hand hygiene - a general term that applies to routine hand washing, antiseptic hand wash, antiseptic hand rub, or surgical hand antisepsis. • Hand washing: the vigorous, brief rubbing together of all surfaces of lathered hands, followed by rinsing under a stream of water. Hand washing suspends microorganisms and mechanically removes them by rinsing with water. The fundamental principle of hand washing is removal, not killing. • Hand sanitizer – alcohol-based: for alcohol-based hand sanitizers, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (5) recommends a concentration of 60% to 95% ethanol or isopropanol, the concentration range of greatest germicidal efficacy. • Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose. • Vaccination: the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.

  10. Sample Lesson Plan K-3

  11. Communities In Schools of North Carolina 222 North Person Street Raleigh, NC 27601 Phone: (919) 832-2700 Toll Free: (800) 849-8881 Fax: (919) 832-5436 www.cisnc.org

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