Authors : Bhavanam Sai Rajendra; Dr. Sandeep Patil; Dr. Sammita Jadhav
Volume/Issue : Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 9 - September
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DOI : 10.38124/IJISRT20SEP086
Hand hygiene competence is one of the critical
outcomes for health care workers who are working for
covid patients.. Ensuring health care workers to reduce
the risk of infections among nurses and health care
workers.
Adequate hand hygiene(HH) awareness for hospital
staff like Nurses, ward technicians, health care workers
should be implemented so as to reduce risks of facing
infections.
To assess the knowledge and awareness
programmes to the front line warriors who are in
direct contact with covid patients.
A systematic review of studies published on January 1,
2009 based on, an online survey done in Canada where
FIVE leading hospitals are actively involved and
participated for Hand hygiene care.
An online Data collection with simple and sample
survey was conducted for Nurses, ward technicians,
covid health care workers and Gram volunteers
according to Guidelines given by World Health
Organization’s SEVEN ( 7) hand washing steps. The
Data collection was taken from 50 Nurses and 50 covid
health care workers particularly working in rural areas
of Parchur Mandal of Prakasam District in Andhra
Pradesh state
Keywords : Hospital-acquired infection, Behaviour, Quality improvement, Handwashing, Program evaluation, Review.