Clean your hands before touching a patient when approaching himher To protect the patient against harmful germs carried on your hands Clean your hands immediately before performing a cleanaseptic ID: 840168
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1 Your 5 Moments Clean your hands before
Your 5 Moments Clean your hands before touching a patient when approaching him/her. To protect the patient against harmful germs carried on your hands. Clean your hands immediately before performing a clean/aseptic procedure. To protect the patient against harmful germs, including the patient's own, from entering his/her body. Clean your hands immediately after an exposure risk to body fluids (and after glove removal). To protect yourself and the health-care environment from harmful patient germs. Clean your hands after touching a patient and her/his immediate surroundings, when leaving the patient’s side. To protect yourself and the health-care environment from harmful patient germs. Clean your hands after touching any object or furniture in the patient’s immediate surroundings, To protect yourself and the health-care environment from harmful patient germs.A PATIENTA PATIENTTOUCHING PATIENT A PATIENTA PATIENTTOUCHING PATIENT All sonable recations have een aken y he orld ealth rganization o erify he nformation ontaied n his doument. owever, he ublished material s being distributed ithot warrany of ny ind, eihepressed r mplied. esponsbilty fr he nterpretation nd se f he aterial ies with he der. n o eent hall he orld lth rganization be iable fr amages risng rots se.WHO acknowledges the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), in particular the members of the Infection Control Programme, for