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    Procedure Scientific Rationale

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    The document outlines the steps for demonstrating proper handwashing technique to a patient. It begins with establishing rapport with the patient and explaining the purpose and importance of handwashing for preventing disease transmission. The demonstration then shows the patient how to properly wash their hands, including using soap, rubbing hands together for 60 seconds, and rinsing thoroughly. Key steps include removing jewelry, cleaning between fingers and under nails, and drying hands completely. Finally, the patient is asked to return demonstrate handwashing to ensure comprehension.

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    Procedure Scientific Rationale

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    The document outlines the steps for demonstrating proper handwashing technique to a patient. It begins with establishing rapport with the patient and explaining the purpose and importance of handwashing for preventing disease transmission. The demonstration then shows the patient how to properly wash their hands, including using soap, rubbing hands together for 60 seconds, and rinsing thoroughly. Key steps include removing jewelry, cleaning between fingers and under nails, and drying hands completely. Finally, the patient is asked to return demonstrate handwashing to ensure comprehension.

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    The document outlines the steps for demonstrating proper handwashing technique to a patient. It begins with establishing rapport with the patient and explaining the purpose and importance of handwashing for preventing disease transmission. The demonstration then shows the patient how to properly wash their hands, including using soap, rubbing hands together for 60 seconds, and rinsing thoroughly. Key steps include removing jewelry, cleaning between fingers and under nails, and drying hands completely. Finally, the patient is asked to return demonstrate handwashing to ensure comprehension.

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    Procedure Scientific Rationale

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    Michael Amandy
    The document outlines the steps for demonstrating proper handwashing technique to a patient. It begins with establishing rapport with the patient and explaining the purpose and importance of handwashing for preventing disease transmission. The demonstration then shows the patient how to properly wash their hands, including using soap, rubbing hands together for 60 seconds, and rinsing thoroughly. Key steps include removing jewelry, cleaning between fingers and under nails, and drying hands completely. Finally, the patient is asked to return demonstrate handwashing to ensure comprehension.

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    PROCEDURE SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE

    1. Gain the rapport of the patient To get the full attention and participation of the
    patient to impart knowledge.
    2. Explain the purpose of visit It is a right to know the purpose of visit
    3. Observe good non-verbal communication To prevent misunderstandings and to have a
    following S.O.L.E.R comfortable interaction with the patient
    4. Define handwashing
    5. Explain the importance of handwashing To value handwashing
    6. Explain how germs spread Awareness make individuals do primary
    prevention thus prevents getting diseases.
    7. Identify key times to handwash Identifies time where handwashing is crucial
    because it is when transmission of disease is at
    peak
    8. Ask questions to clarify comprehension Evaluates if the patient clearly understood the
    information taught. “If someone was to ask you
    about handwashing what would you say ?.”
    START OF HAND WASHING DEMO
    9. Prepare the necessary articles needed To be organize and systematic
    10. Remove wristwatch and other jewelries Microorganisms can lodge in the settings of
    jewelry; removal facilitates proper cleaning of
    hands and arms
    11. Check hands for breaks in the skin, keep A nurse who has open sores may require a work
    nails short assignment with decreased risk for transmission
    of infectious organisms; Short nails are less likely
    to harbor microorganisms, scratch a client, or
    puncture gloves
    12. Observe ample distance from the sink Uniform should not touch the sink to avoid
    contamination
    13. Turn on the faucet and wet hands It serves as a wetting agent and facilitates
    thoroughly under running water lathering
    14. Hold the hands lower than the elbows The water should flow from the least
    contaminated to the most contaminated area;
    the hands are generally considered more
    contaminated than the lower arms
    15. Get the soap, wah under running water Flushes the microorganisms from the surface of
    the soap
    16. Apply soap to both hands and lather well Expands the volume and distribution of the soap;
    loosens debris and dirt into the skin
    17. Rinse the soap and return to the soap Flushes the microorganisms from the surface of
    dish the soap
    18. Use firm, rubbing and circular Helps remove the microorganisms mechanically
    movements in cleaning the hands for at
    least 60 seconds

    19. Follow the sequential step/techniques as Frees microorganisms that are lodged In skin
    per the guidelines by the World Health creases and crevices
    Organization (2009):
    a. Rub hands palm to palm
    b. Right palm over left dorsum with
    interlaced fingers and vice versa
    c. Palm to palm with fingers interlaced
    d. Back of fingers to opposing palms
    with fingers interlocked
    e. Rotational rubbing of left thumb
    clasped in right palm and vice versa
    f. Rotational rubbing, backwards and
    forwards with clasped fingers of right
    hand in left palm and vice versa
    20. Rinse both hands thoroughly, keeping the Running water rinses microorganisms and dirt
    hands lower than the elbows into the sink; promotes drainage by gravity flow
    towards fingers
    21. Wash the faucet handle and turn it off Removes microorganism and prevents the nurse
    from picking up microorganisms from the faucet
    handle
    22. Dry the hands thoroughly with towel Drying the skin well prevents chapping; dry hands
    from the fingertips to the wrist from the cleanest to the least clean
    23. Discard towel in appropriate container
    24. Do after care of the area Facilitates cleanliness of the area
    25. Perform the procedure at the allotted
    time (not more than 10 minutes)
    26. Ask the patient to do a return To evaluate if the procedure is correctly
    demonstration of handwashing understood and followed.

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