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Information for healthcare workers
We have produced information for healthcare workers about healthcare associated infections and associated topics:
- Standard precautions – a guide for healthcare workers
- Transmission based precautions – a guide for healthcare workers
- Aseptic non-touch technique
- Hand hygiene in residential and aged care
- Preventing catheter associated urinary tract infection
- Checklist for indwelling catheter insertion
- Clostridiodes difficile infection-guidance for healthcare workers
- Guidance for the decolonisation of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Pathogens of concern guidelines for non-acute settings
- CPE management and surveillance protocol
- Multi-Resistant organisms: clearance - information for General Practitioners
Standardised signs for standard and transmission-based precautions
The Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare have developed standard and transmission-based precautions signs. They are badged with the Tasmanian Government logo and available for use in Tasmanian public healthcare facilities. These posters are available at ACQHC Standard and Transmission Based Precautions Posters
Hand hygiene posters
Posters for healthcare workers
- 0-10 000 in 60 seconds
- A whole world in your hands
- Are you unclear? Know the procedure like the back of your hand
- Clean sweep
- Don't be off hand - care about hand hygiene
- Don't infect – protect
- Don't leave it to chance. Take control of hand hygiene
- Don't put patients at risk. Make hand hygiene your priority
- Glove abuse
- Handle with care
- I do - so can you
- Kick bugs into touch
- Little breeders
- Social climbers
- Stop infection in its tracks
- Takeaways
- The 5 moments of hand hygiene
- The bug stops here
- The hitcher
- Think they're clean?
- Trendy
- War of the wards
- You put your left hand in…
Posters for public areas within healthcare facilities
- All hands to the pump
- I care about your health... it's ok to ask if I've cleaned my hands 1
- I care about your health... it's ok to ask if I've cleaned my hands 2
- We do - so can you
General hand hygiene messages
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