Investigation of Hand Germ-Carrying status of Healthcare Workers in Burn Wards
- VernacularTitle:烧伤病区医务人员手污染带菌状况调查
- Author:
Ming WU
;
Binbin HUANG
;
Yue CUI
;
Shujun WANG
;
Qinglong SHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Burn ward;
Hand hygiene;
Status quo investigation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
2009;0(21):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate hand hygiene of healthcare workers in burn ward in our hospital and provide scientific basis for the effective prevention and control of hospital infection in burn ward.METHODS Selected randomly 30 healthcare workers in burn ward and sampled from hands for bacterial culture.RESULTS The average colony of hand pathogens of the 30 healthcare workers was 105.42 CFU/cm2,the maximam was 1093 CFU/cm2.Among the hand pathogens,40.91% were Bacillus subtilis,36.36% were micrococcus and 13.64% were Staphylococcus aureus.CONCLUSIONS Hand hygiene of healthcare workers are not optimistic in burn ward.Strengthening the education of hand hygiene and raising the executable rate of hand hygiene are important measures to prevent and control the hospital infection in burn ward.
