Personal hygiene and behavior of medical staff

Need medical wearing apparel (gown, medical cap, etc.) an important role in the treatment of patients with purulent surgical diseases and personal hygiene plays a special clothing medical personnel. Clean, ironed white coat can reassure the patient and convince qualitative and skilled treatment, to send him to fight the disease. Wearing medical clothing prevents infections. Wearing a mask or gauze bandage protects the doctor from getting an infection from a patient, and vice versa. Gloves protect medical personnel from cuts at the opening ampoules. Moving shoe helps keep clcan office space, dirt entry from the street.

Rule the principle of isolation and its the principle of isolation includes primarily placing "clean" and septic patients on different floors of offices, using different operating. His medical personnel are festering and "pure" branch, otherwise the doctor can be a carrier of septic infection from one patient to another.

Rule wearing medical cap, gown, shoes the important principles of personal hygiene rules are wearing medical clothing - a robe and cap - with its daily change. Gown and cap should be clean and ironed. They must wear at least once a week. Gown should be long enough to cover the floor skirts for women, and men reach to the knees. Preferably whatever his sleeves were long (allowed length 2/3). Colours may vary: light and delicatc shades of blue, green, pink, and of course - white. Cap must cover hair head completely, as in hair deposited dust (possible spread of microorganisms). Slipper recommended rubberized leather on the sole, it is convenient to wash and disinfect. Not in any case not be wearing felt or fur slippers. Slippers should be comfortable, whatever they could be a long walk, what would they have not sweated feet that would be walking they do not create noise.

Requirements for personal laundry, clothes, shoes, rules of wearing personal clothing should be made of cotton fabric. Clothing should always be clean, Linen erased at least once a week and socks every three - four days. Not allowed to wear short skirts, open tops. Toilet water in the medical staff should not feel too. Personal shoes, if possible, should be leather. Excluded high heels as walking they create noise, which can interfere with patients. Street shoes before entering the hospital to wash, or shake a threshold or carpct. Indoors department stores disguises to clcan, working slippers.

Validation wearing and hygienic processing watches, bracelets, rings, etc. If medical personnel wearing watches, rings, bracelets, they must be subjected sanitized (fray alcohol). As a result, they may lose their appearance, so it is better to exclude, rings can tear gloves, and this can lead to infection of various infections during surgery. Fingernails should be cut short (two millimeters from the edge of the nail plate). Hands should be washed with warm running water and soap before and after each procedure at least two minutes.

Hygienic principles of conduct medical staff outside the hospital medical staff in any case should not leave the hospital in special clothes and shoes AC. Outside the walls of the hospital staff should tiy not to get sick and do not get any infections that would not bring them to the hospital. Mandatory rules for medical professional is the abandonment of smoking as a vice, not compatible with the knowledge of the physician.

Occupational discharge medical staff Medical staffmust use their toilets and sinks, in no case did not go to the toilets patients. Before visiting the toilet should be removed gown after wash your hands with warm running water and soap. In medical personnel should not be bleeding wounds, cuts, sores, as this can lead to infection of the patient from the doctor and vice versa. Cleaning should be carried out at least once a day using disinfectants (bleach solution, bleach, etc.). To prepare the solution of bleach take 10 liters of water dissolved in perchloric it one kilogram of bleach and placed in a dark glass bottle, so a 10% solution of bleach. The solution advocated 24 hours, then poured into a dark bottle, you can store it for 5-7 days. While cleaning to ventilate the room. Damp wipe furniture is made daily. The upper part of the walls, ceiling cleaned of dust twice a month Just wipe the window frames, doors. It is important to wipe radiators, pipes, central heating, as there is available dust can pryhority and thus form carbon monoxide.

Requirements when visiting nurses operating room, dressing room, intensive chamber, with ligation of patients in the wards surgical departments operating Visiting Medical personnel wearing protective clothing, which is kept in a special cupboard. To reduce the risk of droplet infection staff covering your mouth and nose with a mask. The mask is prepared from four layers of cheesecloth, size 16/20 cm from hem to strap four corners. Applied and other types of masks, but they should cover your mouth, nose and chin. Operating robes sewn from thick fabric. Knotted robe behind. Personnel involved in the operation, always wears a cloth cap or headscarf, completely covering the hair. If contact with infectious contents or feces of patients, medical staff uses kleyonkovyy apron Rubber gloves and special shoes that are disinfected after work. After reviewing patient survey wounds or changing bandages, disinfection facilities, as well as hygiene procedures for staff washing their hands with warm running water and soap for two minutes. For handwashing using bare commercial soap or soap in small packaging for one procedure. For each individual health care providers need towels (changed every day. As a means to disinfect hands used 80% ethanol, 0.5% solution of chlorhexidine bigluconate in 70% ethanol or 0.5% (0.125% of active chlorine) bleach solution.