Above: Tauranga Paediatric team receiving a CARE certificate for hand hygiene.
Hand Hygiene is in YOUR hands
By Robyn Boyne, CNS Infection Prevention
and Control. She says the whole team works together to achieve good hand
hygiene.
Congratulations to BOPDHB’s Paediatrics
Wards and Special Care Baby Units
(SCBU). The teams have had great results
in the quarterly national hand hygiene audit
and were recently presented with CARE
certificates from Director of Nursing Julie
Robinson for their efforts. Tauranga Paediatric Ward Clinical Nurse Manager Lynnece
Dowle-Back says the Paediatricians are ‘amazing’ and the whole
team is focused on infection prevention and control and patient
safety – ‘we all do it’. She says if other staff visiting the ward
forget to wash their hands, they are soon reminded before they
leave the room.
Whilst the average result for the DHB was 76%, Whakatāne
Hospital’s Paediatric ward reached 96% and 88% in SCBU. The
result for the Paediatric Ward in Tauranga Hospital was 92% and
85% in SCBU. You will see hand hygiene auditors out and about as the current
audit period ends on June 30.
Whakatāne Hospital Paediatric Ward Clinical Nurse Manager
Sharon Powley says the team is aware of the vulnerability of
their patients and so that makes them want to do the right thing.
Tauranga Hospital’s SCBU Clinical Nurse Co-ordinator Marian
Wordsworth says the team is very aware of the vulnerability of
neonates which highlights to them the importance of hand hygiene
and the great result seen across both SCBUs.
We are All One Team. Let’s challenge each other to get our next
quarterly results up and over the 80% mark. Infection Prevention
and Control- it’s in YOUR hands.
Below from left: Julie Robinson with Paediatric and SCBU teams.
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