New PURELL^® Healthcare Hand Hygiene Technique Videos

Using the proper technique when applying hand sanitizer and hand soap are essential to any infection prevention program and periodic training is crucial to keep your staff up to date and your patients safe. These easy-to-follow videos walk you through the steps when washing your hands with soap and water and when sanitizing your hands. The videos include animated demonstrations and are translated into Spanish.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Video Series

Newly released in May 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in partnership with the American Hospital Association launched the Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Video Series. The four videos include content around foundations for engaging all healthcare workers, developing hand hygiene knowledge and skills, mindfulness and accountability and using hand hygiene data for action.

Using a human factors framework to assess clinician perceptions of and barriers to high reliability in hand hygiene

Existing studies of human factors engineering (HFE) in hand hygiene have examined how systems, the environment, cognitive factors, technology, and training affect hand hygiene compliance. In this study researchers used an HFE framework to identify perceptions of and barriers to high reliability in hand hygiene across different provider categories in a pediatric healthcare setting. While not widely used in infection prevention efforts, HFE has the potential to impact improvement at the individual, group and system levels.