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Hand Hygiene Auditor Training
| Course category: General Clinical |
| Duration: 8 hours |
| Study mode: Face to face |
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Pre-requisites: E-learning modules
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About this course
The role of a Hand Hygiene Auditor is integral to reducing healthcare associated infections through auditing of hand hygiene practices.
This course has been designed to enhance your skills and knowledge to accurately assess hand hygiene compliance in accordance with published guidelines using a standardised hand hygiene observation assessment tool.
As a hand hygiene auditor, you can not only do audits but play an integral part in ensuring compliance by educating staff and promoting hand hygiene activities.
Who should attend?
Any clinician who is interested in supporting the District by undertaking hand hygiene audits.
What will you learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the concept of micro-organism transmission and identify the 'five moments for hand hygiene'
- Demonstrate recording of 'five moments for hand hygiene' using the National Hand Hygiene Initiative audit tool accurately
- Analyse hand hygiene compliance data
- Identify improvement opportunities for hand hygiene
- Provide hand hygiene education for your colleagues
- Promote hand hygiene awareness activities among colleagues, patients, and visitors.