H A N D
H Y G I E N E
SINK TIME Christy
Schofield, RN, BSN
(foreground), and surgical
tech Jennifer Endicott
perform a traditional scrub.
Finally, an effective
surgical scrub that
will win your staff's
approval.
Skin health is just as important
as effective antimicrobial kill.
That's why PURELL® Waterless Surgical
Scrub is the ideal choice. With alcohol as the
only active ingredient, our formulation
achieves a high level of germ kill and
persistent activity. So we don't need to add
any harsh ingredients to meet and exceed FDA
surgical scrub requirements. Instead, we add five
conditioners that actually help maintain healthy
skin. All that combines to make it a scrub that
your surgical team will want to use.
If you're aiming
to minimize SSIs,
hand hygiene is an
ideal starting point.
Thomas Harris, BSN
Christy Schofield, RN, BSN
Marysville, Ohio
A Hands-On Approach to
Improved Infection Control
easily taken for granted, but it's not
to be overlooked. When we saw an
opportunity for improving our staff's hand
hygiene behaviors, we took action. Since
implementing the changes described here
last December, we've seen no surgical site
infections. That's a big deal, considering
we were seeing monthly incidents
throughout last year. Let's explore some of
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the ways to reinforce the
importance of caring for
the hands that care for
patients.
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Set a goal
Lay the foundation for your
quality improvement project by
obtaining a baseline, whether that means
detecting a trend that demands correction
or just recording the status quo. In our
case, we noticed in our monthly infection
control reports a repeating pattern of post-
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and hygiene is so basic it may be
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Giving your surgical staff a better way to scrub in.
We had a hand in that.
