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Training your housekeeping staff on infection control

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, May 31, 2007

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Taking frequent walks through the ICU and other units allows you not only to perform spot checks to ensure that staff members wash their hands, clean equipment, and follow IC protocols, but also to forge relationships with clinicians, which can pay huge dividends. Use this checklist on an annual basis to make sure your facility is up to speed:

• Make sure windowsills aren't used for storage
• Confirm that staff members use precaution signs when patients are on precautions, as well as check to ensure that they are using the correct signage
• Monitor central line insertions to ensure that the proper protocols are followed
• Ensure the cleanliness of emergency carts
• Confirm that clean linen is covered on the carts and that clean and dirty supplies are kept separate

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