UNIVERSITY OF CEBU BANILAD

HEALTH CARE SERVICE/MIDWIFERY

SKILLS LABORATORY
PROCEDURE CHECKLIST
MEDICAL HANDWASHING
AXILLARY METHOD USING GLASS OR ELECTRONIC THERMOMETER
NAME: JASMIN GAY L. DAKAY YR & SEC. HCS DATE: SEPT. 27,2020 GRADE: ____________

LEGEND:
1 – VERY SATISFACTORY (VS)
2 – SATISFACTORY (S)
3 – NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (NI)
4 – POOR (P

PROCEDURE RATIONALE 1 2 3 4
ASSESSMENT: The most important measure to avoid the
transmission of harmful germs and prevent
1. Assess the hands for visible soiling, breaks or cuts in the
skin and cuticles. health care-associated infections.

PLANNING: These are things you need when cleaning your hands. It
provides you confident and calmness to your
2. Assemble the needed supplies or equipments: environment. These things support you for your goals to
achieve healthy and safe hand hygiene.
- soap or the cleansing agent specified by the facility
- hand lotion(optional)
- paper towels
- waste container
- nailbrush(optional)
- orange stick (optional)
- soap with soap dish or liquid soap
- warm running water

IMPLEMENTATION: When you are about to act, please be reminded and be

mindful of what you have wearing so that you will be
3. Remove jewelry and watch and push sleeves of uniform comforted in washing your hands without hassle to
or shirt 4 to 5 inches up to the arms or above the elbows. worry about.
Uniforms must not touch the sink by standing away from
the sink.

This idea is absolutely has making a sense, using paper

4. Use a clean paper towel to turn on the faucet. Adjust
the water
temperature until it is warm and adjust the force of water.
Dispose the paper towel in a facility-approved waste
container.
5. Wet your hands and wrist area, keeping your fingers
pointed
down to cause the water to run off the fingertips and into
the
sink. Do not allow water to run up the forearms.
towel while turning on the faucet makes the germs not to
spread out. Adjust the temperature of water with the fact
your skin won’t affected by any harmful effect due to
water temperature. Immediately dispose the used paper
towel to its facility-approved container to avoid
contamination.
Running water is very helpful to clean your hands. Let the
germs flew down by the running water. Just use one
water flow direction, from top to down because it
washout the germs scattering to your hands.

6. Press the hand pump or stepped on the foot pedal to To probably clean the your hands there are cleaning agent
dispense to use. With this soap it helps you to fade the
the cleaning agent into one cupped hand. microorganism staying strongly in your hands.
7. Lather hands with liquid soap or if bar soap is used, When something is expose to questionable happening, do
wash soap not hesitate to consider it unclean. Repeat the procedure
and lather hands. Note: if the bar soap is accidentally so that you won’t have doubtfulness.
droppedrepeat the procedure
8. Return the bar soap on the soap dish without touching Sink was the destination of the microorganism its from
the sink. your hands down to sink, do not let your hands touch the
sink. Be careful, if accidentally you touched it, repeat the
procedure.
 By rubbing your hands using cleaning agents, it obviously
9. With firm rubbing and circular motion, wash the hands kills the bacteria. Proper hand washing makes the areas of
for 10-15 seconds in the following manner: your hands free from germs.
a.) palms to finger tips
b.) back of the hands to finger tips
c.) finger tips
d.) in between fingers starting from the thumb
e.) forearm until 2 inches above the wrist
Note: Re lather if necessary.
10. Repeat the procedure with the other hand using the Repeat as long as its enough to clean your hands.
same
technique.
11. Rinse elbow to hands, keeping hands lower than the Using running water to wash your hands with soap, you
elbows. should place your elbow up while your finger tips were
down so that in washing your hands using running water
the germs will flow immediately to the sink.
12. Clean carefully underneath the tips of the fingernails Don’t let the microorganism stays in your fingernails it
with the blunt edge of an orange stick or a nailbrush should gone. By using orange stick it helps your time to
under a running
water. clean your fingernails.

13. Dry hands thoroughly with a clean paper towel. Start To finally achieved the goal, dry your hands using paper
by towel. From finger tip to forearms so that it easier for you
putting at fingertips, hands and then wrists and forearm. to dry-up the both hands.
Disposed the paper towel in a facility-approved waste
container,
being careful not to touch the container.
14. Turn off the faucet with a hand towel or new paper Your hands are already clean and to avoid contamination,
towel. use the hand/paper towel to turn off the faucet.
Carefully disposed off the paper towel. Immediately disposed the paper towel to
facility-approved trash container.
15. Open the door by covering the door knob with a clean Well it clearly your hands are clean! You will not able to
paper touch the door knob to avoid contamination, please allow
towel as you left the handwashing area. Pushed the door your patient’s health in your mind that you are going to
open
with hip and shoulder to avoid contaminating your clean assess them so be mindful to your actions. Using paper
hands, if towel using to open the door is the key to exit the
there was no doorknob. washing room.
16. Apply a small amount of hand lotion if desired. Alternative way to free your hands from germs.

EVALUATION: Checking is allowing yourself to evaluate your work. If it is

17. Inspect hands and nails for cleanliness absolutely unreliable repeat and make it pass the
standard of having a clean hands.
DOCUMENTATION: It allows you to monitor on how frequently you washed
18. Record time when handwashing is done. your hands.

COMMENTS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

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 UNIVERSITY OF CEBU BANILAD
HEALTH CARE SERVICE/MIDWIFERY
SKILLS LABORATORY
PROCEDURE CHECKLIST
DUSTING
AXILLARY METHOD USING GLASS OR ELECTRONIC THERMOMETER
NAME: JASMIN GAY L. DAKAY YR & SEC. HCS DATE: SEPT. 27,2020 GRADE: ____________

LEGEND:
1 – VERY SATISFACTORY (VS)
2 – SATISFACTORY (S)
3 – NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (NI)
4 – POOR (P

PROCEDURE RATIONALE 1 2 3 4
1. Remove jewelry To achieve comfort you will able to remove unnecessary
things doesn’t need in cleaning. To avoid contamination
be mindful to remove your jewelries.
2. Assemble all needed equipment: To make things happen accordingly, prepare the
equipment for you to use in cleaning/dusting. Each
- basin material has their own function.
- detergent powder
- broom
- dustpan
- dusting cloth
- water
- stick with cloth around the tip
- newspaper
- dry soft cloth
- tray

3. Make a general survey of the room. Determine what Check the area and think what are the things for possible
pieces of to be moved.

furniture are to be moved. Removed things from tables,

shelves,etc. before dusting

4. Bring in the needed equipment to the patient’s unit For finally taking action clean the patient’s unit & bring
the equipment needed.
5. Place the equipment tray on top of the table or chair Protect your equipment from dirt, placed it safely and
but never cover it with paper to avoid contamination. Your
equipment must be cleaned because you will be using it
on the floor. Make sure that the bedside table is lined for cleaning.
with paper.

6. Clean the ceiling first. Then proceed with the sweeping We all know dust will probably go down when you
of the floor. removed it. It has one direction from the top to down so
to avoid repetition of dirt you must clean first the top
area of the patient’s unit going down.
7. Next clean the walls, Line the floors of the working area We all know when we were using newspaper its clearly
with newspaper. cleaned the walls just like mirror, glass, metal, etc.
Newspaper has scientific explaining why is it effective in
cleaning the surface.
8. Wet the dust cloth and wrap the cloth around the hand Wet the dust cloth to easily removed the dirt.
Sticky/hard/rough dirt melted with water that’s why it is
easily to removed it form the surface.
9. Observe PRINCIPLES IN DUSTING: By observing the following principle in dusting it really
a.)Dust from top to bottom helps you in achieving cleanliness. Using these directions
b.) Dust in one direction only allows to have better cleaning techniques because when
c.) When the cloth becomes too dirty. Wash it again. you were using various kind of directions of cleaning the
Repeat as surfaces it will looks like greasing. You must know also
often as necessary. what are the types of clothes you have to use in cleaning.
d.) In dusting a bar, table, etc.,drag your hand along Wash the clothes as much it is not dirty.
surfaces
following one direction/stroke only.
e.) Use a dry soft cloth on cleaning electric bulb and
varnished
furniture. Use metal polish for metals.

10. Change the water as necessary. Unclear water is the signal to change the water or else
you won’t meet your expectation.
11. Pay particular attention t o remove dust from the By using stick with cloth around the tip you will able to
crevices or clean the narrow areas inside the patient’s unit.

holes. If the crevices or holes are too small. Use a stick

with cloth around the tip.

12. Dust the patient’s bed and other articles. (Do not One of the most important area is to clean the patient’s
attempt to dust the bed if the patient is in it). bed. To provide safety in your patient you must clean it to
avoid contamination.

13. Observe good body mechanics throughout the While cleaning the patient’s unit, you are aiming for
procedure. happy ending to achieve that allow yourself to clean the
area by freeing your body from physical damage you must
observe good body mechanics.
14. Return and arrange the furniture and other articles to So finally it is clean! This time you will able to return the
its proper places. Leave the patient’s unit in orderliness. things you’ve moved. Arrange it and make sure it is ready
to use.
15. Do after care of the equipment. Well your done and now you must wash the equipment
and be sure next time those equipment are ready to use
again and return it where it placed. #leave_no_trace:)
16. Wash hands. Your hands are dirty you must clean it by following the
hand washing procedure.

COMMENTS /RECOMMENDATIONS:
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CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR DATE