Who Would Do It...Monitor Handwashing?

[greenfiremajick]

If your hospital had one of those new fangled doohickey systems that monitor your handwashing via your badge and an infrared sensor, etc. which department would monitor and report the results? I'm thinking IT, or maybe if it's a big hospital, the specialized infection control department? I'm doing a paper and trying to get an idea of who would (or who is currently) monitoring something like that...Seems like IT would def need to be involved, right? Or am I wrong about that??

[Zookeeper3]

Simple answer, our unit secretary/monitor techs and the respiratory dept. is head of hand washing. They DO, yes they do track the handwashing.

We are to foam in to every room, wash our hands while in the room prior to leaving then be witnessed foaming out.

Any nurse not seen doing this is tracked.

NOW talk about big brother! Surprisingly...no one monitors the docs and x-ray techs:eek:

Go figure.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

Zookeeper- I'd have no flesh left on my hands after 12 hours. How do you do that?

[punkydoodlesRN, BSN, RN]

Handwashing is only one element in this spectrum - - how often are the staff cleaning their STETHOSCOPES????

When I had a cardiac cath done last year, people would take their scope from around their neck, listen to my groin site and then wrap that scope around their neck again.

YUCK. I made one doc take off his scope and clean it in front of me.

But what about everyone else? And everyone leans on or over the bedrails.

Hands are only one part of the equasion....

I'm anal about my scope. I put extra foam/gel on my hands and before I rub them together, I run my hands down my scope and bell. Then get more if needed to finish my hands. I've never seen another co-worker clean their scope. At the end of my shift, I scrub it down with bleach wipes.