RPA World Hand Hygiene Day 2024

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Across
  1. 4. An annual campaign run by WHO on May 5th
  2. 6. People who should always feel comfortable to ask HCWs to wash their hands
  3. 9. A policy all HCWs must comply with
  4. 11. A physician shunned by his peers, but who recognised the importance of hand hygiene
  5. 13. When is world hand hygiene day?
  6. 15. Hands should be washed with soap and water after contact with a patient known to have this
  7. 16. Considered to be the gold standard for hand hygiene
  8. 17. A skin problem that can increase a HCW risk of contamination, infection and transmission
  9. 18. This should be used at appropriate moments to maintain skin health
Down
  1. 1. Hand wash requirement when your hands are visibly soiled
  2. 2. Items that can impeded our capacity to wash our hands
  3. 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
  4. 5. The first line of defense in infection control and assumes that all blood and body fluids are potentially infectious
  5. 7. The number of audit periods undertaken as part of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative every year
  6. 8. The organisation behind the 5 moments for hand hygiene
  7. 10. Hands must be rubbed to generate friction to enable the ____ removal of microorganisms
  8. 11. Who you should contact if you notice you have a skin concern
  9. 12. The most effective way to prevent the spread of infection
  10. 14. The greatest barrier to hand hygiene
  11. 15. Our ABHR product!