Wash Your Hands or Lose Your Job?

Imagine this.  It's 23:00 and time to start your shift in PICU.  Your first assignment is to check on a post-op patient and do a cath change.  Video cameras follow you and transmit images to a company in India where you are being watched.  Actually, not you so much as your hands.  You did de-germ, right?  You were thorough, yes?  You do want to keep your job, correct?.  

You know why.  Dirty hands kill patients.  According to the New York Times, it's also about controlling costs.  Like $30 Billion USD annually in the US alone.  Hospitals everywhere are experimenting with all types of methods to improve hand hygiene. 

Want to know more?  Check out the CDC site on Hand Hygiene.

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