• Tent cards in dining areas
• Patient and family informational brochures
• In-house TV hand hygiene reminders ( think public service announcements )
• Notices on hospital website and / or apps
Safety Culture : Foster a safety culture that embraces :
• Leadership engagement and modeling of expected hand hygiene behaviors at all times
• Psychological safety - everyone feels safe to speak up when hand a hygiene opportunity is missed and greets such reminders with a “ thank you !”
• A top-down accountability framework with a unit-based approach for barrier removal , action planning , goal setting and celebrating of gains
Actionable Feedback : Implement best practices for collecting and analyzing data and understand how to pinpoint where improvement is needed :
• Implement reliable performance measurement methods ( e . g ., electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring )
• Provide timely , actionable feedback to all
• Maintain and distribute individual hand hygiene report cards to front line staff so they can be aware of and improve personal practice
We ’ re excited for this update and think it will go a long way in helping healthcare organizations think about hand hygiene in a systematic way that contributes to highly reliable staff performance with sustained gains in compliance . As you think about organizational goals for 2022 , consider incorporating the framework as a new patient safety and healthcare quality tool .
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Paul Alper , BA , led the launch of PURELL ®, invented the first electronic hand hygiene monitoring system proven to reduce infections while improving behavior and eliminating costs and is now the vice president of patient safety innovation for Medline Industries , Inc . through an exclusive engagement with his consulting practice , Next Level Strategies , LLC .
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