We ask that all patients, visitors and staff follow the advice below Patients: please clean your

hands Before eating After using the toilet, bathroom or commode Before leaving your room and ward area Visitors: please clean your hands When you arrive on a ward/unit and before visiting your relative/ friend After using the toilet Before helping a patient with his/ her meal Before visiting another patient On entering and upon leaving rooms with an isolation letter sign on the door eg B Before leaving your relative/ friends Staff: must clean their hands Before and following direct contact with an individual patient Before serving food or helping a patient to eat After helping patients to the toilet, or commode and after using the bathroom facilities themselves On entering and upon leaving rooms with a isolation letter sign on the door eg B

Hand Hygiene Prevents Infection

Compiled with the help of St Jamess Hospital Dublin

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Aut Even Hospital Freshford Road Kilkenny Co Kilkenny Phone: 00353 56 777 5275 Fax: 00353 56 776 2147 E-mail: info@auteven.ie www.autevenhospital.ie

Patient Information Leaflet

Did you know that.. Germs are routinely picked up on hands when touching the environment for example door handles, telephones, taps and surrounds, when using the toilet, handling pets, uncooked foods etc. Germs are easily transferred from the hand to surfaces and food. Some germs that are routinely picked up on hands can cause infections. The good news is that these germs are easily removed by HAND WASHING WITH WARM WATER AND SOAP OR RUBBING CLEAN HANDS WITH AN ALCOHOL HAND RUB. Please follow the hand hygiene technique illustrated to help prevent the spread of infection. If you would like more information or have any questions on hand hygiene, ask a member of staff can contact the infection control nurse.

Hand Hygiene Technique 1. Soap up rubbing palm to palm 4. Fingertips and backs of fingers into palm

2. Palm to palm & wrists, fingers interlocked

5. Thumbs clasped in palm

3. Palm to back of hand & round wrists

6. Clasped fingers into palms