PFPS champions promoting patient participation in hand hygiene promotion
This year, once again, 5 May has been a great success, with increased hospital registrations for Save Lives: Clean Your Hands, new countries joining and new Member States pledging to combat health care-associated infections (HAI). PFPS has been collaborating to encourage action on patient participation in hand hygiene promotion in the run-up to 5 May 2013. This year’s campaign called for health-care facilities to work with their patients, patient organizations and local communities to promote hand hygiene in the prevention of HAI.PFPS appealed to the network of patient champions and others to take action and encourage patient participation in hand hygiene practices. Below are a few examples of PFPS champions, advocates and patient organizations responding to this call for action.Activities to mobilize action:
[*]Newsletter articles and targeted emails
[*]New webpages and resources
[*]Presentations and online discussions
[*]Educational workshops
[*]Videos
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The PFPS Mexico network led by Evangelina Vasquez, has been empowering patients and families. Workshops were held in collaboration with a health facilityin Mexico City toeducate patients on their role in infection prevention. The workshops involved sharing personal stories of the impact of HAI, showing videos on hand hygiene and patient involvement and lots of discussion. Patients also gave their own reflections and experiences of hygiene in the hospital.
PFPS Champion Nagwa Metwally in Egypt encouraged her local hospital to take action. A special ceremony was held at the hospital on 8 May 2013 on hand hygiene including a presentation by Nagwa on the importance of patient education.
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In Canada, PFPS Champion Barbara Farlow joined the 5 May planning committee of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI). The Committee developed a competition for facilities to showcase innovative ideas to promote hand hygiene that involved patients and families and demonstrated improvement- ‘a unique bottom-up approach.’ The winning entry was a personalized poster reminding patients, families and staff to wash their hands. CPSI will work with the winning facility to spread the learning from this strategy, across the country.
Margaret Murphy, PFPS Lead Advisor, presented in the WHO teleclass on 6 May, on the added value of patient participation, highlighting efforts by PFPS to promote hand hygiene practices. Slides and the recording are available online to those who register.
The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office collaborated with Nagwa Metwally to interview patients for the production of a video for 5 May to encourage and inform others on the importance of hand hygiene.
In the United States, PFPS Champion Jeanine Thomas and the MRSA Survivors Network has been inspiring others to engage in hand hygiene and MRSA prevention through webinars and presentations to health workers, researchers and policy analysts.
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In China, IAPO member, the Beijing Association of Alzheimer’s Disease, worked in close collaboration with the local community and medical staff to organize events to mark this hand hygiene day, by holding a workshop attended by over 100 community members. Participants were briefed on hand washing techniques and the danger of HAI.
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