OVERVIEW

Keep It Clean: Hand Hygiene and Skin Antisepsis is organized by Nurse.com - OnCourse Learning Corporation and will be held from Mar 05, 2018 - Mar 05, 2021.

The target audience for this medical event is intended for multiple professions, including dietitians/nutritionists, health educators, laboratory professionals, nurses, pharmacists, and physicians. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 1.0 Contact Hours.

Course Description:
Whether at the surgical site or on the hands of the healthcare provider, skin is laden inherently with resident and transient flora. Inadequate hand hygiene allows opportunistic pathogens in varying life stages to transfer between patients and other surfaces during everyday activities. Yet many healthcare workers across various disciplines continue to have poor hand hygiene despite best-practice evidence about microbial transfer between people. Proper preoperative patient skin antisepsis and hand hygiene can minimize surgical site infections, and healthcare professionals across disciplines should collaborate to enhance adherence.

Conference Objectives:
The goal of this skin hygiene continuing education program is to provide healthcare professionals with information about the relationship between skin and the transference of pathogenic microorganisms. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

• Explain the pros and cons of using gloves as personal protective equipment during patient care
• Describe three natural features of skin that can support or hinder the transference and growth of microorganisms on the caregiver and patient
• Explain how hand hygiene and skin antisepsis work in combination to prevent infection

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.