The HandsOn™ System

Hands-On™ is a process management tool that provides a structured approach to managing hand and surface hygiene.  Adhering to a structured process is an essential step towards achieving sustainable behavior change consistent with reducing the risk for hospital acquired infections (HAI).

The 5 Steps

1. Assessing Risk: Learn how to identify individuals and surfaces at risk for cross contamination.
2. Setting Safe Level: Discover how to establish visual hygiene standards at individual and team level.
3. Optimize: If hygiene isn't easy, isn't convenient and isn't friendly, it isn't done. Insure Conditions for Success are in place.
4. Training & Motivating shifts the paradigm.  Discover how to motivate behavior change at individual & team level.
5. Monitoring.  What gets measured gets done. Discover performance tracking tools that trump observation techniques.

Questions?

Contact us for answers to your questions in hand hygiene training and best practices in infection control.

The Doctor Knows game

tests hand hygiene knowledge

The Dr. Knows video game was designed to be part of the 90 Day Challenge program.  It is a fun way to refresh caregiver knowledge on when to practice hand hygiene and on what intervention is most appropriate.  The game follows a Doctor doing rounds at a hospital and encountering numerous situations where hand hygiene is indicated. 

There are 2 games to try.  An easy version that prompts the player to select the appropriate action and a more difficult game that does not prompt for a response.  Good luck and have fun.

The 90 Day Challenge

Are you interested in a program that will change the attitude and behavior of doctors, nurses and other caregivers and engage them in better hand and surface hygiene?  Contact us for more information on the 90 Day Challenge

     Membership is Free

The Free Membership program for Infection Prevention Professionals has been extended through the end of 2012.   Learn more about membership benefits.

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Take5™ is a multi-media program that makes hand and surface hygiene easier to achieve. Each release provides a turnkey program with the presentations, training videos, hygiene posters and implementation techniques needed.  Take5™  takes the suffering out of surfing, making hand hygiene easier and more effective.  Become a member and view the growing library of Take5 bulletins in the Resource Center including;

CareReady Hands:  Tools to improve hand hygiene of caregivers.

TouchReady Surfaces: Preventing cross surface to hand cross contamination.

Doctors Wash:  A series of ideas on improving doctor compliance.

Peer Programs: Ideas proven to work in the real world.