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Hello everyone
I would like to know what the practice is in other facilities for skin preparation prior to blood collection, especially prior to collection of blood for blood cultures?
I believe best practice is to prep skin with 70%alcohol + 2% chlorhexidine, am I correct in this?
Yet I find that the practice of most blood collectors is to use just 70% alcohol. And I note that as much education I give to them re-the 5 Moments, their habits are very difficult to change.
They are performing a procedure which involves great risk of contamination to the patient yet, it appears that all staff do their own thing re-technique and sequence of doing things and glove use.
It also seems that as soon as I have trained someone in the correct technique in regards to hand hygiene they are then moved to another location and I need to start all over again. Some of the staff feel that they have been doing the same job for 20 years and don’t feel there is need to change anything.
Has anyone had any success in involving the pathology/ blood collecting staff in the ownership of prevention of infection? If you have, could you please share how you have done it.
Thanks, hope you all have a great day.
PS. (Sorry if this is a dumb query)
Teresa
Teresa Lewis
Infection Control/Prevention
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Newcastle Private Hospital
Email:teresa.lewis@healthscope.com.au
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