PLEASE DON”T KILL ME WITH YOUR DIRTY HANDS!!! Imagine how many things you have touched from the time you left your home to the time you eat lunch. Now imagine not washing your hands throughout the day, but touching your face, mouth, or open wounds. Gross huh? Located all over University Community Hospital and other medical centers are sanitization devices available at your disposal. As a group we knew we wanted to place our sticker somewhere in the hospital. Why not a cafeteria? Doctors, nurses, patients, visitors, and other employees all pass through the cafeteria. If no one kept their hands clean then the doctors, nurses, employees, or patients could spread bacteria to the visitors and vice versa. Located in several parts of the hospital's cafeteria are sanitization devices. Since several people are in the cafeteria devouring food, preparing food, and serving food cleanliness is a must. However, going to the sink several times to wash your hands is inconvenient but more effective. Most sanitizers kill 99.9% of bacteria, and seeing that sanitizing hands is a preventive measure it is considered a primary method of prevention in public health.
Washing your hands can save your life and someone else life too. Especially in the hospital setting where patients are prone to staph infections illnesses, easy access to hand sanitizer provided by the hospital or self could help to minimize the spreading of bacteria and infections. Washing hands has become a social norm in today's society. Today you can now purchase at low prices cute and stylish hand sanitizer to carry with you at all times. If washing your hands lead to dry skin, there is hand sanitizer with moisturizers. Who doesn't love that! In many community areas hand sanitizer has become just as important as soap and water.
Ericka Oliver
Anevia Johnson
Marissa Stewart
Diane Pierra-Louis
Key A'sha Martin
Picture taken by lovely cafeteria attendant
This was such a great choice of location. After seeing the movie "Contagion", I am very cautious about everything. I bought a small bottle of hand sanitizer, and I am ALWAYS using it. It the best method to kill germs and bacteria is your on the go, if you want to eat and there is no bathroom to wash your hands. Its easy and convenient, and always for the ones on the go.
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ReplyDeleteVolunteering at Helen Ellis Hospital I would see hand sanitizer stations around every corner. It's a perfect example of public health. Helping to prevent the spread of disease and eliminating germ. Hand sanitizers are very efficacious in killing off harmful germs. I would recommend them, especially because not too many people are always around a sink, unless after they use the restroom. Even though hand washing is extremely important, hand sanitizers do the job well to prevent disease. I also liked that your group expressed that people can now carry hand sanitizers with them. Bath and Body Works has all sorts of flavors, for anytime of the season . They have small pocket sized ones, that smell good and kill off germs! Volunteering at the hospital I would always use mine.
ReplyDeletei have read an article regarding this, don't you know that handwashing is important for us like it is for the nurse? you can read about it at "Why is Proper Handwashing so Important for Nurses" HEre--> http://healthmattersmostinlife.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-is-proper-handwashing-so-important.html
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