Clean Hands Count for Healthcare Providers: Know the Truth to Protect Yourself and Protect Your Patients [2-page handout]

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• Alternative Title:
  Healthcare Providers: Clean Hands Count for Healthcare Providers: Know the Truth to Protect Yourself and Protect Your Patients [2-page handout]
• Description:
  Healthcare providers factsheet.
  
  Know the truth to protect yourself and protect your pagents
  
  Truth:
  
  • Alcohol-based hand sanitizer is more effective and less drying than using soap and water.
  
  • Using alcohol-based hand sanitizer does NOT cause antibiotic resistance.
  
  • Alcohol-based hand sanitizer does not kill C. difficile, but it is still the overall recommended method for hand hygiene practice.
  
  • Some healthcare providers miss certain areas when cleaning their hands.
  
  • The amount of product you use matters.
  
  • Glove use is not a substitute for cleaning your hands. Dirty gloves can soil your hands.
  
  • On average, healthcare providers perform hand hygiene less than half of the times they should.
  
  ww.cdc.gov/HandHygiene
  
  This material was developed by CDC. The Clean Hands Count Campaign is made possible by a partnership between the CDC Foundation and GOJO.
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  provider-factsheet-508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Hand Hygiene Health Personnel Health Promotion
• Series:
  Clean Hands Count
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:862a720ae353a7bb2778183cdd5bb9998aa584a42866b93cbff456d6647e09a1f6e37479fd6f36493def5d23fc797a176c54a74a1b84936a97f2e03c2617b59d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39226/cdc_39226_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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