{"id":5050,"date":"2017-04-24T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:40:38","slug":"patient-safety-sentinel-when-must-you-perform-hand-hygiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/2017\/04\/patient-safety-sentinel-when-must-you-perform-hand-hygiene\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Safety Sentinel: When Must You Perform Hand Hygiene?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Before patient contact<\/li>\n<li>After patient contact<\/li>\n<li>Before entering a patient room<\/li>\n<li>Upon leaving a patient room<\/li>\n<li>After contact with patient surroundings or items in the patient space<\/li>\n<li>Between caring for patients in the same room<\/li>\n<li>Before donning gloves<\/li>\n<li>Upon removing gloves<\/li>\n<li>When hands are visibly soiled<\/li>\n<li>Before a clean or aseptic procedure (drawing blood or starting an IV)<\/li>\n<li>After body fluid exposure<\/li>\n<li>After performing a \u201cdirty\u201d task\u00a0 (emptying a Foley, cleaning a patient)<\/li>\n<li>After using the restroom<\/li>\n<li>Before and after eating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Protecting our patients is the top priority at Cooper University Health Care. 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