Background to the Hand Hygiene YSI 2009 Report Hand Hygiene YSI 2009
My team and I are here to present you with the important issue of hand hygiene.
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Background to the Hand Hygiene YSI 2009 Report Hand Hygiene YSI 2009
My team and I are here to present you with the important issue of hand hygiene.
Hand hygiene plays a vital role in everyone’s life, even though at times we may not know that it does. Seeing that this issue is not at the top of the agenda, along with the ignorance of the community about the issue gave us the encouragement to go out and insure that hand hygiene gets to the top of all agendas.
Many “germs” like bacteria, viruses and fungi live on our hands most of which are harmless to a strong healthy person, but someone can be more than just “harmless”....they can kill.
As I am speaking many of you are helping transmit a killer bug, it may not be affecting you now yet, if this deadly bug is delivered to either a friend or a patient or family member it can result in serious consequences or even death.
For example deadly infections like MRSA can be found on large numbers of mobile phones, when was the last time you laid your hands on your mobile?
With these same hands that opened doors, answered calls and greeted people you as an individual is helping to spread viruses like the flu epidemic and other biologic killers.
For Global Hand washing Day the world Health Organisation issued “The Fundamental Five” these are five facts every person should know about hand washing
1. Hand washing with water alone is not enough
2. Washing with soap can prevent diseases that kill millions of children every year
3. The critical moments for hand washing are after using the toilet or cleaning a child before handling food.
4. Hand washing with soap is the single most effective health intervention
5. The most effective way in educating the public is focusing on the potential hand washer and his/her motivations
In the battle towards germs, hygiene hands will win the war!
For futher information please visit http://www.globalhandwashingday.org/
What do you see?
A Poem found among the possessions of an old lady who died in a geriatric ward of a hospital in Scotland.
Author unknown
What do you see, nurses, what do you see,
what are you thinking when you\'re looking at me?
A crabby old woman, not very wise, uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes.
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
when you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you\'d try!"
Who seems not to notice the things that you do,
and forever is losing a stocking or shoe.
Who, resisting or not, lets you do as you will
with bathing and feeding, the long day to fill.
Is that what you\'re thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse; you\'re not looking at me.
Ill tell you who I am as I sit here so Still,
as I use at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I\'m a small child of ten with a father and mother, brothers and sisters,
who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,
dreaming that soon now a lover she\'ll meet.
A bride soon at twenty - my heart gives a leap,
remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own
who need me to guide and a secure happy home.
A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,
bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty my young sons have grown and are gone,
but my man\'s beside me to see I don\'t mourn.
At fifty once more babies play round my knee,
again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days upon me, my husband is dead;
I look at the future, I shudder with dread.
I\'m now an old woman and nature is cruel;
\'tis jest to make old age look like a fool.
But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,
and now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remember the pain, and I\'m
loving and living life over again.
I think of the years - all too few, gone too fast -
and accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, nurses, open and see,
not a crabby old woman; look closer - see ME!!
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