hand washing

Hand washing very important in our life. As a nurses, we must maintain hygiene to prevent infection that comes from patient because we do not know the patient comes with what disease. There is two types of hand washing, that is medical and surgical. The ways to do medical hand washing such as rotational rubbing of thumb that clasped in palm,scrub top of finger at palm and rotational rubbing at wrist, rinse and dry the hand.

Firstly, rotational rubbing of right thumb that clasped in left palm and repeat for another hand. Beside that,we need to rub space between each finger of hand because microorganisms always have at there. So, clean this part can decrease the microorganisms.

Secondly, scrub top of finger at palm with circular method. Before that,we must make the fingers circle in shape to rotate the fingers easily. It is for clean up our nails simultaneously kill all microorganisms that have in the nails and top of the fingers.

Thirdly, rotational rubbing at wrist of both of hand,rinse and dry hand. This also the last method for medical hand washing. If we do surgical hand washing, we need to rub until elbow. We need to dry the hand with tissue paper over all before we touch any instrument or patient. So, we can avoid the microorganisms go to instrument or patient.

In conclusion, we need to do hand washing step by step to decrease microorganisms at our hand. So, we can keep hygiene and maintain healthy life.