1 00:00:11,292 --> 00:00:14,840 So, today I am going to take you through the steps of hand hygeine 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,840 In accordance with the WHO guidelines which is the World Health Organisation. 3 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,840 I am going to start off by showing you hand hygeine with using soap and water 4 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:29,800 and then we are going to move on to sanitising with alcohol gel. 5 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:35,800 So it is really important that although we are washing our hands and decontaminating that we need to keep them decontaminated. 6 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,960 So it is almost like a bit of a non-touch technique, so as much as we don't have to touch anything, we try not to. 7 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,680 So I will show you that. 8 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:48,920 With these taps I am just going to use the back of my hand to turn the tap on. 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:54,280 Wet the hands thoroughly, all over and then we move on to applying the soap. 10 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:59,200 Using our arm with this, apply a good dollop of soap in the palms of our hands 11 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:04,640 and we are just going to massage the soap right over the areas we are cleaning, all over the hands. 12 00:01:08,473 --> 00:01:15,960 Then we move on to massaging the back of the hands with the palms and intertwining our fingers at the same time 13 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,080 and we do that on both hands. 14 00:01:24,266 --> 00:01:29,240 Moving on we interlock our fingers again palms together we are rubbing our palms together 15 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,160 and we are also massaging inbetween our fingers as well. 16 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:42,480 The next stage is interlocking our fingers so we are almost grasping hold of our fingers and then we just rub together. 17 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:48,160 Making sure that we are massaging the base of the fingernails 18 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:54,880 From that action, to make sure that we are getting the thumbs involved the next step is to grab hold of your thumb 19 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:01,520 and twist it around and massage the entire thumb in your other hand. 20 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,760 We repeat on both hands. 21 00:02:07,390 --> 00:02:13,360 To make sure that we have covered the fingernail area we put our fingernails in the palms of our hands 22 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,720 and do a rotating action, 23 00:02:19,067 --> 00:02:23,440 On one hand and then the other. 24 00:02:25,242 --> 00:02:33,760 The final step is to cover the wrist areas so we are grabbing the wrist and circulating round 25 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,320 and repeat on the other side. 26 00:02:40,070 --> 00:02:47,720 That's the 7 steps completed and now we rinse off that material 27 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,840 all the soap. 28 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,560 Make sure that you have rinsed well and that all the soap has vanished. 29 00:02:55,777 --> 00:03:01,160 Turn the tap off using our arm stop our hands touching 30 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,440 and then we dry. 31 00:03:21,407 --> 00:03:24,880 So now we have washed our hands, we have used the 7 steps. 32 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,000 it is really important that we have dried our hands thoroughly 33 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:37,294 and they are nice and dry so we prevent cracking and dried skin that can cause further problems for the individual. 34 00:03:37,294 --> 00:03:44,200 You don't have to carry our sanitising directly after hand washing because our hands are now clean 35 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:50,400 however I am going to move on to show you hand sanitising. 36 00:03:52,096 --> 00:03:57,040 Once we have introduced the gel onto the palms of our hands we are going to rub around. 37 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:05,240 But we are going to follow the hand techniques again. The ones we have done in the hand washing with the soap and water. 38 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,760 Just to make sure that we have covered the entire hands. 39 00:04:24,962 --> 00:04:30,720 Now we have sanitised our hands with our hand gel it would take about 15 - 30 seconds to dry 40 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,920 We don't have to sanitise our hands with hand gel directly after hand washing with soap and water 41 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:42,240 this is just for filming purposes but whichever way that you have sanitised your hands 42 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,280 we are now ready to carry our the work on the ward.