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Hi All,
An important consideration is also the employers obligations from a workplace health and safety perspective i.e. to ensure the safety of the employee. (Of course it isnt just an obligation – I am sure we all want to keep everyone safe). There is a significant risk to any health care worker if they are not able to effectively perform hand hygiene whilst working in the clinical setting. To allow someone to work knowing that they cannot correctly and effectively perform hand hygiene would be knowingly putting someone at risk.
Just an additional perspective.
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SallySally Havers
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Subject: Re: [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] Compression StockingHi Kristin,
Surely the workplace protocol for staff who do not have bare below elbows for religious reasons would be the same as for that staff member.
The NHHI Manual describes the bare below the elbows as cultural with limited evidence.I did ring the Human Rights Commission about this some time ago.
It is important to be mindful of discrimination on the basis of physical or religious grounds.But someone may have fantastic research in this area to share.
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Glenda Farmer
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Accreditation solutions- intelligent content managementOn 25 Feb 2020, at 10:16 am, Bellis, Kaye <K.Bellis@ALFRED.ORG.AU> wrote:
HI Kristin, I agree with Belinda. Its a difficult time for her but if you cannot perform correct HH then you cannot be clinical.
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Subject: Re: [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] Compression StockingHi Kristin
This is a challenging topic, however if the staff member is unable to comply with bare below the elbows and attend hand hygiene they are unable to undertake clinical care.
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BelindaBelinda Henderson RN BN IPN MAdvanced Prac CICP-E
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[image.png]On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:13 PM Kristin Ryan-Agnew (Northern NSW LHD) <Kristin.RyanAgnew@health.nsw.gov.au> wrote:
Hi all,
We have a fantastic RN who is required to wear a pressure stocking on her arm due to lymphedema from breast cancer.
We would love to assist her getting back to work but we have a question around hand hygiene?
I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter.
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Hi Kirrily,
HHA would like to encourage anyone having difficulties with reporting in HHCApp to please get in touch with us at hha@austin.org.au rather than choosing not to use this functionality. Many organisations use local HCW codes and find the reporting really helpful but there is potential for using it incorrectly if a user doesn’t use the reporting function regularly (it is like anything IT – if you don’t use it every day it can be easy to get the wrong information). Alternatively, if there IS a problem with how the data is being reported (which does happen on occasion) we (HHA staff) need to be advised so we can have the error corrected.
Please feel free to make contact with us if you require further support.
Kind regards,
SallySally Havers
National Manager
Hand Hygiene Australiac/- Infectious Diseases Dept.
Austin Health
PO Box 5555
Heidelberg 3084
VICHi Jenny,
We trialled separating our data for medicine as well between General, Ortho and Medicine. I created additional ‘Local’ HCW codes for auditing. The local data was a good snapshot to report back to departmental heads however, I discovered when it came to reporting at the end of the Audit Period that the local data didn’t add up to the overall Medical data, so I had to be very careful reproducing data that was apples for apples. This was especially problematic for anyone else access the data from HHA because they would pull ‘Medical Officers’ data which was different to the ‘local’ HCW group data I had created (which was access through a more convoluted process in snapshot reports (HHA)…in the end it became too difficult to manage, so I deleted the local HCW groups from the database.
I do have hand hygiene auditors in specific wards that collect their own local data between different groups of medical officers and present this at their own departmental meetings. This data is over and above routine auditing where an auditor external to the department has audited.
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Kirrily[X]
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Good morning,
We have been asked if it is feasible to provide more specific data for our Medical staff’s compliance with hand hygiene.
If anyone does distinguish between different groups (Medical,Surgical,Oncology etc) and /or seniority of staff w would welcome your input.
Many thanks
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Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
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Thank you Michael,
Just to confirm that the Infection Control modules in the HHA Learning Management System are only hosted by HHA on behalf of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (ACSQHC). These modules were developed by the Commission and HHA do not manage the content within these.
Any questions or information regarding these should be directed to the ACSQHC at HAI@safetyandquality.gov.au.
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VICHi Chelsea
I know you referred to the HHA online package, but did you also mean the ACSQHC infection control modules available on the HHA online platform? Worth following up to see if these might meet your needs.
Cheers
MichaelMichael Wishart | Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E
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[2019 conference email signature]Hello,
Currently all new employees complete written infection control education packages. Does anyone know of any online learning modules (other than the Hand Hygiene Australia module) that I can direct staff to complete that is free for our hospital to utilise and perhaps offers a certificate of completion afterwards as proof of compliance? We are trying to move from paper to online learning where possible.
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