1. Standard Precautions: Focus on Hand Hygiene
Intended Audience: Supervisors, Managers and Direct Caregivers
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2. Standard Precautions: Focus on Hand Hygiene
Learning Points
Review standard precautions and why they are important in your work
Learn more about common communicable diseases in healthcare facilities
Practice/review hand hygiene techniques

3. What are Standard Precautions?
Ways of doing your work to prevent the spread of disease
Name some common diseases that are bloodborne or spread through contact with people
It is estimated that failure to practice proper hand hygiene is the #1 cause of the spread of disease in healthcare facilities.

4. Common Communicable Diseases in LTC*
Norovirus
MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
Influenza
Escherichia coli (E. coli)
Clostridium Difficile (C. diff)
*and other health care settings

5. Hand Hygiene
Plays a strong role in preventing the spread of communicable disease
Hand hygiene includes washing with soap and water and also using hand gel
When should a caregiver perform hand hygiene?

6. Activity: Practice Hand Hygiene
Let’s watch a brief video first:
Practice using soap and water
Practice using hand gel

7. Practice Standard Precautions.
More Information
Soap vs. Hand Rubs
Using Hand Lotion
Fingernails
Personal Protective Equipment: Gloves
Wrap-Up/Learning Points Review
Practice Standard Precautions.
It’s Contagious!