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By Peter Teska

Nosocomial infections (nosocomial infections) have a toll on patients, their families, hospital staff and the bottom line, and a good reputation and the financing of health centers impact. In fact, every day 1 of every 25 hospital patients, 600,000 per year, is facing a nosocomial infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Since it is expected that pathogens in the environment, to contribute a part of healthcare-associated infections, it is crucial that all environmental hygiene practices adequate health care facilities for the cleaning and disinfection of surfaces and hand hygiene. Environment and Health is an approach that requires planning and proper execution of multiple tasks. Ease Hygiene Plan (FHP) helps organizations, the essential elements that meet contribute to environmental health problems that can cause infections.

What motivates Facility Manager?
There are several factors that influence how a managed property, including concerns:
• Productivity - the staff for equipment maintenance and cleaning
• Ergonomics - tasks to minimize the risk of injury
• Results - that align with the expectations of the installation appearance and hygiene
• consumption - to chemicals, water, energy and other supplies needed to treat are installing
• Security - to ensure these employees and the public adequately, while protected in the middle

Many of these factors are taken into the decisions of the FHP resist. A FHP is a comprehensive concept, the need to create a pre-crisis period, as an outbreak of infection. In it, he describes how the health facility will carry out certain processes in order to maintain cleanliness at all times. All employees should know and understand the information in respect of PSF reasonable and prepared in times of higher risk.

The elements of a FHP
Development of a PSF holds many factors, including:
1. Risk assessment and planning: facilities should determine a rating and describe various pathogenic risks conduct. After the test may determine the means which changes should be made to prevent as extra storage space for supplies to infections or adding more hand washing stations.

2. Cleaning and disinfection products, processes, tools and machinery: The PSF should describe the products, processes, tools and machinery, as recommended standards of cleanliness are maintained. By product, companies should consider these disinfectants and cleaning are used and in what areas and limits its use. Facilities must also determine whether current cleaning processes to manage the risk of transmission of the environment. For equipment, companies need to consider user-friendliness, efficiency, ergonomics, safety, noise, water consumption and the advantages over disposable reusable.

3. At the stock level teams: The system should establish a level of the main supplies for everyday use, such as disinfectants, disinfecting hands, trash bags and paper towels Base. Facilities should know in advance what supplies are needed, the amount of the order and delivery time. As a rule, it should be two to four weeks of supply on site, but in epidemics, two to three months supply is recommended. Delays in obtaining extra supplies during an outbreak should be a consideration in the planning process.

4. Training of employees: The PSF should highlight important issues training for employees of the cleaning staff and / or works, including how, what, when and where to clean, hygienic practices requirements protective equipment (PPE) and Personal Hand.

5. Visitors Communication Equipment: equipment, materials such as posters, table tents and leaflets to employees and the public that the risk for specific pathogens and developing desired behaviors to communicate. For routine matters, such as cold and flu season, the materials can be developed in advance. For emerging pathogens, the materials can be created during the outbreak. Identify the key behaviors for staff and visitors is an important development considered FHP.

6. Hand Hygiene: FHPS have the points that hand hygiene is available, specify either by dealers and fountain soap or disinfecting stations. Controls also need to make sure that the hand hygiene products are effective against pathogens involved and are in the hotel.

7. Blood and body cleaning fluids: blood and body fluids can transmit pathogens to enable staff, a disinfection orientation to use meeting the CDC. In addition to destroying the disinfectant, the FHP detail appropriate PPE for workers against blood and body fluids and describe how to decontaminate tools after cleaning up spills it.

8. Respiratory hygiene: Some diseases are transmitted through respiratory secretions, so that staff, patients and visitors should be encouraged to cough and sneeze to cover the elbow instead of the hands, and then use a tissue available, and wash your hands after using a tissue.

9. Personal Personal hygiene and vaccines. The facility should encourage clinicians and bathe daily cleaning, wear clean uniforms for each layer, wash hands frequently and keep vaccinations up to date, many health centers now require employees annual flu shot to help can ill reduce the risk of staff at peak influenza activity.

10. PPE: cleaning staff should have access to gloves, fluid resistant gowns, masks, face shields and lower leg and foot coverings. The PSF should detail where necessary and as put on and remove PPE to ensure adequate protection.

11. Monitoring and verification of conformity: Health services should programs to monitor hand hygiene, cleaning the environment and the use of PPE surface so that you can track compliance and the necessary improvements. The PSF describes the programs in place to ensure employees are aware of their existence and purpose.

Protect what's important
Each in establishing hygiene is compatible with the same goal: to protect patients, visitors and staff. If organizations to develop and follow a detailed FHP and update as additional emerging pathogens, it is easy to understand what to do and when. Consequently, organizations are better able to prevent epidemics and the effects of which will be produced, which limit in turn improves their bottom line, reduce costs, and pain and suffering of patients and their families and help to protect the reputation of the institution.

Peter Teska is a world expert in the field of health care Diversey, a division of Sealed Air Corp., a leader in food safety and security, hygiene and protection of the product installation.

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