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- 4. An annual campaign run by WHO on May 5th
- 6. People who should always feel comfortable to ask HCWs to wash their hands
- 9. A policy all HCWs must comply with
- 11. A physician shunned by his peers, but who recognised the importance of hand hygiene
- 13. When is world hand hygiene day?
- 15. Hands should be washed with soap and water after contact with a patient known to have this
- 16. Considered to be the gold standard for hand hygiene
- 17. A skin problem that can increase a HCW risk of contamination, infection and transmission
- 18. This should be used at appropriate moments to maintain skin health
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- 1. Hand wash requirement when your hands are visibly soiled
- 2. Items that can impeded our capacity to wash our hands
- 3. Hand wash basins in clinical areas should be _____ for their intended purpose, and not used for non-hand hygiene activities that promote microbial growth
- 5. The first line of defense in infection control and assumes that all blood and body fluids are potentially infectious
- 7. The number of audit periods undertaken as part of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative every year
- 8. The organisation behind the 5 moments for hand hygiene
- 10. Hands must be rubbed to generate friction to enable the ____ removal of microorganisms
- 11. Who you should contact if you notice you have a skin concern
- 12. The most effective way to prevent the spread of infection
- 14. The greatest barrier to hand hygiene
- 15. Our ABHR product!