Posted on 12/01/2011 5:19:20 PM PST by decimon
Washington, DC, December 1, 2011 -- Only 21 percent of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when and when not to wash their hands in the clinical setting, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Three researchers from the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology at Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany collected surveys from 85 medical students in their third year of study during a lecture class that all students must pass before bedside training and contact with patients commences. Students were given seven scenarios, of which five ("before contact to a patient," "before preparation of intravenous fluids," "after removal of gloves," "after contact to the patient's bed," and "after contact to vomit") were correct hand hygiene (HH) indications. Only 33 percent of the students correctly identified all five true indications, and only 21 percent correctly identified all true and false indications.
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Air Force Marine jokes are funnier. ;-)
Trying to convince docs to wash their hands goes way further back than antibiotics and disinfectants.
Back before bacteria were understood, it was known you were better off going to a midwife than a physician to give birth, especially since the docs were performing autopsies bare handed then delivering babies without washing their hands.
Young docs make sure their patients see them wash their hands before examining them.
Old docs try to get through an examination without touching the patient thus saving a hand washing.
Young docs make sure their patients see them wash their hands before examining them.
Old docs try to get through an examination without touching the patient thus saving a hand washing.
Uh, their Mamas didn’t teach them that? Heck, I always use the soap free cleaner even after I just blow my nose, at work. I figure no one else wants to share my germs!
Or is rising generation simply a product of a more 'hands off' - so to speak - child rearing. . .
Whose hand is 0 holding??
It’s quite *old*...a bad-bad photoshop gone wrong. It’s Mooschelle’s mother’s hand.
Thx
I know the reasoning (”...wash your hands before you go to the bathroom....), and believe that it’s scary *not* to.
Daffy, how on earth do you find these things? I’m beginning to think that your umbilical cord was a USB port.
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