As a professional responsible for hand hygiene compliance, you know the statistics on healthcare associated infections (HAIs). You’ve seen firsthand the impact HAIs have on patients, your peer healthcare workers (HCWs), and your facility. You understand that proper hand hygiene is a fundamental practice of any healthcare organization, and the single most important action to help reduce the spread of infection.

Today, there is more pressure than ever to produce results in building and maintaining compliance with hand hygiene standards. However, traditional approaches to education and hand hygiene promotion yield poor results with compliance rates averaging 40% across various clinical studies.¹ Changing behavior is difficult and usually occurs gradually over time. Healthcare facilities are complex environments with many hand hygiene opportunities. Brief training sessions that touch on hand hygiene often don’t address the importance of the right technique, new pathogens, and advice of how to overcome obstacles to good hand hygiene.

GOJO Clean Hands was developed to help you educate your facility on hand hygiene best practices, while promoting behavior change through  self-assessment and improvement planning. GOJO Clean Hands is a self-administered online education program with four primary learning objectives:

• Review the fundamentals, challenges, and best practices of good hand hygiene
• Perform self-assessment against hand hygiene guidelines
• Define individual improvement areas
• Incorporate hand hygiene improvements into daily practice

As HCWs move through the program, they receive friendly email reminders and hand hygiene tips to help them achieve their improvement goals. The tips and reminders are specific to the hand hygiene moments the HCW has chosen to improve. Participants can track their progress through the program and see changes in individual self-assessment and quiz scores on the site dashboard. Each HCW who finishes the program gets a certificate acknowledging their commitment to improved hand hygiene.

GOJO Clean Hands is a flexible tool that you can use in many ways depending on your facility’s needs.

• Action plan in response to an outbreak or cluster of infections
• Annual training or competency program
• New employee orientation
• Tier on a clinical ladder
• Behavior modifying intervention for non-compliance
• Risk assessment tool to determine strengths and weaknesses in your hand hygiene program

As a Site Administrator of the program, key advantages include automatically inviting targeted participants via email (no leg work needed!), monitoring participant’s progress, as well as receiving feedback summarizing weak areas in knowledge and self-assessed hand hygiene compliance. To protect the privacy of your healthcare workers, all personal identifiers are removed. No individual responses are reported. [Please refer to GOJO Industries Inc. Privacy Policy]