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Hi Fiona,
We have had excellent support by our executive for all clinical staff to
remove jewellery and artificial finger nails in particular our CEO.
Staff were given a deadline to remove artificial nails and this was
December. The other component that supported this was that clinical
staff were supplied with the colorful silicone fob watches. So there is
no excuse for staff now to be non compliant. If staff don’t comply it
will become a performance management issue and managed in this manner so
far we haven’t had to go down this path.
The main issue for us is the visiting staff such as agency so that is my
next task to contact the agencies and inform them of our Policy but this
has been mainly for jewellery.
Good luck hope this helps a little
Kind regards
Colette Chard
Infection Control Coordinator
Clinical Nurse Day Surgery
North West Private Hospital
137 Flockton St.,
Everton Park
07 3246 3145 / 3246 3183(Tuesdays)
email:chardc@ramsayhealth.com.au
—–Original Message—–
Behalf Of RUSSO, Philip
Short of running a guillotine across the knuckles, I’d suggest they
would need to be removed from the clinical area until a/nails removed
Regards
Phil Russo
On 22/03/2010, at 3:35, “Wilson, Fiona L (Infection Control)”
wrote:
> As per Hand Hygiene Australia and WHO consensus recommendations, we
> do not recommend that HCW have artificial fingernails while working
> in the clinical area. I am wondering how you ‘police’ this (for want
> of a better term) and does anyone have a HR process for HCW’s who
> refuse to remove artificial fingernails.
> Regards
>
> Fiona Wilson
> Manager, Infection Control
> Western Health
> Phone: 8345 6666 pager 506
> Fax: 83456973
> email: fiona.wilson@wh.org.au
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