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Clean Your Hands Day | Global Handwashing Day | National Infection Control Week
May 5 is Clean Your Hands Day — a moment to spotlight the exemplary individuals who embody the spirit of Clean Your Hands Day throughout the year, and who make safe care possible every single day. Their commitment to hand hygiene isn’t just routine practice; it’s one of the most powerful tools we have to stop infections before they start.
October 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap and water (or alcohol-based hand rub) as an effective and affordable way to prevent disease and save lives. Global Handwashing Day is an opportunity to design, test and replicate creative ways to encourage people to clean their hands.
This year as we mark the occasion, please join us for the Take 30 for Global Handwashing Day Zoom session from 12:30 to 1 p.m. on Oct. 15, offering insights into the newly developed Take 30: Observe. Improve. Protect. campaign. It offers an opportunity to learn more about the shift from minimum target numbers to time-based hand hygiene reviews by our site-based reviewers and how that will allow us to standardize reporting across the province.
Through this adjustment, we expect to gain a better understanding of where we are succeeding, where challenges exist, and how we can improve together to protect those entrusted to our care.
Hand hygiene reviews are about patient safety, not evaluating individual staff performance.
October 19 to 23 is National Infection Control Week, a time for infection control professionals to educate staff and the community about the importance of infection prevention and to promote the important work that has and continues to be done by infection control professionals in a visible and fun way.
To help mark the week, Dr. Mark Joffe will present Prevention Before Prescription: How IPC and Antimicrobial Stewardship Work Together. The special Zoom session centres around antimicrobial resistance and how we can address it together is set for Oct. 21 from 12 to 1 p.m.
For more information, please reach out at hand.hygiene@ahs.ca.
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