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  • 1.  Hand hygiene auditing for Home health and Hospice settings

    Posted 12-10-2024 12:07 PM

    I would love to hear how others are auditing for hand hygiene of staff in the home visits they complete.  Currently we do a competency but their is no great options for auditing during home visits outside of tag-alongs from IP or RN supervisor.  Would appreciate any ideas of how to do so. 

    Anna 



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    Anna Christenson MSN, RN, LTC-CIP
    Post-acute care Infection Prevention Specialist
    Essentia Health Infection Prevention
    Anna.Christenson@EssentiaHealth.org

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  • 2.  RE: Hand hygiene auditing for Home health and Hospice settings

    Posted 12-10-2024 01:31 PM

    Great question Anna!  We're considering patient or caregiver reporting.  We're very early in our discussions.  I'm interested to hear if others have alternative suggestions. 



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    [Meloni] [Jensen] [RN, BSN, MSM]
    [Director, Quality Improvement]
    [Providence St Joseph Home Care]
    [Anaheim] [CA]
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  • 3.  RE: Hand hygiene auditing for Home health and Hospice settings

    Posted 12-11-2024 08:12 AM

    Our nurse educator makes supervisory visits to assess hand hygiene and bag technique in the home. This is something that Joint Commission always looks at when making their home visits, so we decided it would be best to assess in the field.



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    J Scott Lambert MPT, JD
    Director
    Washington Regional Home Health
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  • 4.  RE: Hand hygiene auditing for Home health and Hospice settings

    Posted 12-11-2024 10:23 AM

    If you don't mind I would love it if you could share the cadence in which this occurs?  IS there a certain number of observations that need to be completed? and if so how many per quarter/ month/ week?

    Anna Christenson MSN, RN, LTC-CIP
    Post-acute care Infection Prevention Specialist
    Essentia Health Infection Prevention
    Anna.Christenson@EssentiaHealth.org
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  • 5.  RE: Hand hygiene auditing for Home health and Hospice settings

    Posted 12-11-2024 10:50 AM

    We perform on all field staff, twice per year.



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    J Scott Lambert MPT, JD
    Director
    Washington Regional Home Health
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