RLO: Hand Hygiene

 

Cross infection (2)

Mrs Smith is also at risk of cross infection from other patients via your hands. Thinking back to the routes of spread of infection, click on three things in the picture opposite that you could touch with contaminated hands and put Mrs Smith at risk of contracting further infection.

Hands must be decontaminated immediately before each and every episode of direct patient contact/care and after any activity or contact that potentially results in hands becoming contaminated. (Dept of Health, 2001)

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