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Author:
Robyn Russell
Email:
rrussell@helpinghand.org.au
Organisation:
Helping Hand
State:
SA
Thanks everyone for your responses
It is great to have the evidence for what clearly is not best practice
I appreciate your time in responding and finding the research to back up my recommendations
Regards
Robyn
[http://www.helpinghand.org.au/hhsig.png]Robyn Russell
Client Safety & Quality Consultant
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Hi Robyn,
I think lack of toilet lids is a very common occurrence across both aged and acute care! We had the same issue in our aged care facilities, and it took quite a bit of convincing to get the gloves out of the bathroom. But I eventually did and was also able to put ABHR in every room. Plume from flushing is definitely a thing – see attached articles – has made me rather strict at home with getting the kids to flush with the lid down!
Aerosol Generation by Modern Flush Toilets David Johnson,Robert Lynch,Charles Marshall,Kenneth Mead &Deborah Hirst Pages 1047-1057 | Received 28 Mar 2013, Accepted 14 May 2013, Accepted author version posted online: 18 Jun 2013, Published online:05 Jul 2013 https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2013.814911
Toilet plume aerosol generation rate and environmental contamination following bowl water inoculation with Clostridium difficile spores. Kathleen A.N. Aithinne, MS, Casey W. Cooper, MS
Robert A. Lynch, PhD, David L. Johnson, PhD Published: December 14, 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.11.009
Also bathroom sinks are not a clinical hand basins and should not be used for healthcare workers to wash their hands (this was part of my argument to get ABHR in every room)- even in aged care. https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/healthcare-associated-infection/national-infection-control-guidelines page: 225
Happy to chat if you need.
Kind regards,
Kelly
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Hi there
Hoping you can post this question for me
A number of our residential sites store gloves in holders in the resident ensuite
I am looking for any evidence that identifies the risk of contamination to the gloves and boxes they are stored in, from toilet flushing (we don’t have lids in the main to allow for toilet seat raises to be in place)
My other concern is that staff then use the resident hand basin in the ensuite to undertake hand hygiene before and after glove use
For the same reason of contamination of the environment from toilet flushing and different levels of personal hygiene of residents I want to remove gloves from ensuites
I am having difficulties locating the evidence needed to convince managers that gloves should be located at clinical hand basins or with the wall mounted ABHR stations in corridor areas
I understand in acute settings gloves are generally wall mounted by the clinical hand basin in the patient’s room, but we only have hand basins in the ensuite.
We generally do not have ABHR in each resident room for the safety of residents living with dementia
We also try our best to provide a home like environment, not cluttered with clinical equipment.
I hope this makes sense
Kind regards
Robyn
[http://www.helpinghand.org.au/hhsig.png]Robyn Russell
Client Safety & Quality Consultant
34 Molesworth Street, North Adelaide SA 5006
T. (08) 8224 7851
M. 0424 167 101
F. (08) 8267 2690
http://www.helpinghand.org.au
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