Advanced Hand Hygiene Practices in Healthcare Settings – Free Udemy Courses

This course is intended for all the learners who would like to understand what hand hygiene is, who is the pioneer of hand hygiene, how and when to wash hands using soap and water and ABHR( Alcohol-based hand rub) hand hygiene techniques, steps, and products recommended for hand hygiene, the role of hand hygiene in prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections, common barriers to hand hygiene and how to overcome these barriers, tools, and templates used in hand hygiene data collection, audit types & techniques and how to make hand hygiene effective against disease-causing agents.

Hand hygiene is not only a matter of concern for health care workers but everyone is responsible for it, irrespective of the profession, as all of us some other time in our life, visit the hospital for many reasons, and the hospital environment may carry these micro-organisms, but if you know the process of transmission through the hands, you can stop the spread of disease from hospitals to patients and the communities.

Hand hygiene, if done as per the recommendations discussed in this course, can save the lives of millions of patients, who acquire infections from hospitals during the disease and many of them die from these infections.