World Hand Hygiene Day Save Lives Clean Your Hands
World Hand Hygiene Day is recognised each year on 5 May. The WHO slogan for World Hand Hygiene Day is Save Lives Clean your Hands with a different theme each year. This year's theme was Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important? Because it helps stop the spread of harmful germs in healthcare. Across NSLHD, all facilities participated in activities led by the NSLHD IPAC team. At Ryde there was an information stall on 7 May with rolling 1 minute inservices provided to health workers from clinical and non clinical departments. this included launching the NSHLD IPAC Gloves off Campaign.
Did you know over 20 million gloves were used in NSLHD in 2023? Next time before reaching for gloves, consider if gloves are needed. Is there exposure or risk of exposure to blood and or body fluids. If the answer is no, then gloves may not be needed. The risk of wearing gloves when you don't need to is missing moments to clean hands and spreading harmful germs in heatlhcare . Remember, Save Lives Clean your Hands.
Sepsis Pathways Launch Ryde celebrated the launch of the revised NSW Health Sepsis Pathways. There are 4 pathways for adult, paediatric, maternal and neonatal patients. Ros Blewitt from critical care has been part of the NSW working party updating the pathways. Ros was on hand along with Dayan Apran from ED to provide important information about the pathways and share some delicious treats with staff as part of the launch. The sepsis pathways support clinicians to identify sepsis risk factors, signs and symptoms, escalate to a senior clinician and commence treatment rapidly. They align with the Between the Flags (BTF) Standard Observation Charts and part of the NSW Deteriorating Patient Safety Net System.
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