Hand Hygiene: Patient Safety Through Infection Control

I remember my mom telling me to “wash my hands before supper”. Something that we all should know how to do, yet vitally important in the medical community.

How hard can it be to wash your hands? If I told you to “Wash your hands before changing that bandage,” how would you do it? What soap would you use? How do you dry your hands afterwards? At what point in the procedure do I actually have to wash your hands? As you can see, there are lots of opportunity to make a mistake and cause a problem, unless you have the answers to these questions.

Hand Hygiene: A Handbook for Medical Professionals is an about-to-be-released book on how to properly hand infection control in a variety of circumstances.  It puts all of these lessons learned into a single reference for a professional to figure out the right way (and the wrong way) to prevent the spread of infections between patients.