The purpose of hand washing is to preserve health. Hand washing is an important part of hand hygiene. Hand hygiene is mainly a measure taken against the risk of cross infection existing in the work of medical staff. It is an important means of hospital infection control. Through hand hygiene, hospital infection can be effectively reduced, and through the infection control workshop, hospital infection staff can be assisted to better supervise hand hygiene work.
Hand washing refers to the process in which medical personnel wash their hands with soap or liquid soap and flowing water to remove dirt, debris and some pathogenic bacteria from their hands. In order to achieve the cleanest degree of ordinary hand washing, the hand washing time should not be less than 20 seconds. Hygienic hand disinfection refers to the process that medical personnel use quick drying hand disinfectant to rub their hands to reduce the temporary bacteria in their hands. Surgical hand disinfection refers to the process that medical personnel wash their hands with soap (liquid) or antibacterial soap (liquid) and flowing water before surgery, and then use hand disinfectant to remove or kill the temporary and permanent bacteria on the hand.
Maintaining hand hygiene is the most basic, simple and effective means to effectively prevent and control the spread of pathogens, so as to reduce the incidence of hospital infection. In particular, the nosocomial infection in ICU is higher than that in ordinary wards, and its infection links are complex. Medical staff, including the hands of nursing workers, have the highest chance of contacting critical patients in the process of diagnosis, treatment and nursing.
What is the meaning of hand washing
In order to be clean and sanitary. Wash your hands before eating to prevent disease from entering by mouth. Wash your hands after going to the toilet. After holding something in hand, it will be contaminated, and then directly contact with the hands to breed bacteria, polluting another item. To prevent secondary pollution, you can also wash your hands. In short, hand washing is clean and sanitary for ordinary people. For some special occupations, more attention may be paid to hand washing. For example, doctors.