Abstract
History of hand washing as an intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality in hospitals dates back to early 1800’s and the practise has yielded good results. Increasing evidence suggesting that hand washing significantly reduced the risk of respiratory tract infections and diarrhoeal diseases, lead to the promotion of hand washing in homes as a public health intervention of choice with well documented impact. Simple indicators of hand washing compliance need to be developed and validated to enable evaluation of the impact of the interventions to promote hand washing in the community. Majority of tools that have been developed for evaluating hand hygiene practices are only suited for health care facilities. Presented is a scoring scale developed to grade the level of hand washing practise of mothers.
Highlights
The primary role of healthcare workers (HCWs) is to care for sick and injured patients, which can expose HCWs to a variety of diseases, injuries, and conditions
HCWs can face exposures to hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus, (HIV), as well as other illnesses transmitted by blood and bodily fluids HCWs are most often exposed to disease through needlestick injuries (NSIs) [3]
The data identified 926 incidents received between January 1, 2014, and August 15, 2017, with 913 incidents documented as blood or bodily fluid exposures and 13 documented as other incidents
Summary
The primary role of healthcare workers (HCWs) is to care for sick and injured patients, which can expose HCWs to a variety of diseases, injuries, and conditions. In a 12 year CDC study of selected hospitals in the U.S, 30,945 incident of exposures were reported, with 82% of those as percutaneous exposures [10]. These exposures most often occurred in in-patient units (36%) and operating rooms (29%).Nurses (42%) were most often exposed, followed by physicians (30%). One study reported 82.1% of HCWs experienced percutaneous injuries, and 48.7% experienced other types of exposure to blood and bodily fluids throughout their work in the field [6].
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