Clinical skills

Question 1

what are the 3 subclasses of hand washing?

Answer 1

what are the 3 subclasses of hand washing?

Answer:
- Social hand washing (for 20 sec with soap and water before & after meal, after toilet, between patients)

• Aseptic Clinical hand washing (for 60 sec before any care that requires an aseptic technique)
• Surgical hand washing (5 mins if first scrub of day and 3 min for subsequent scrub

Question 2

what are the 5 moments of Hand Hygiene?

hint: 2xBefore 3xAfter

Answer 2

what are the 5 moments of Hand Hygiene?

Answer:

• Before touching a patient
• Before a procedure
• After a procedure (/or body fluid exposure)
• After touching a patient
• After touching a patient surroundings