JERSEY CITY — Do you really need to learn how to wash your hands? Well, maybe you do. In honor of “Patient Safety Awareness Week,” Jersey City Medical Center planned an event today, “the importance of proper hand washing techniques, with Vicki DeChirico, RN, Director of Infection Control, using the ‘glo germ’ program to show under an ultraviolent light how germs spread,” they note.
This is slated for Wednesday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in the lobby at 355 Grand St.
So what are we doing wrong?
“Good hand hygiene requires more than just holding a bar of soap and rinsing your hands under water,” she says. “After wetting your hands with warm, running water and applying soap, hands need to be rubbed vigorously for at least 15 seconds and then rinsed. After drying the hands with a clean, disposable towel, another clean towel should be used to turn off the faucet and turn the knob on the door. You can’t stop all infections, but you can lower the risk and prevent the spread of germs.”
Good to know! But that’s a lot of disposable towels we’ll go through.