Quality statement 6
A clinician inserting a patient’s PIVC uses standard precautions, including aseptic technique. The device is secured and a sterile, transparent, semipermeable dressing is applied unless contraindicated.
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Environmental cleaning is a critical element of standard precautions and of health service organisation infection prevention and control programs.
The Commission has developed new training pathways for Hand Hygiene Auditors (previously called General Auditors) and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators (previously called Gold Standard Auditors).
Annual revalidation is a method of ensuring all Hand Hygiene Auditors and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators remain up to date with their knowledge of the 5 Moments and audit practices. This ensures valid and reliable data for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
This page provides information on Hand Hygiene Auditor Educator Training.
These data definitions should be used for auditing to ensure consistency of data.
Prevention and control of VRE is an important patient safety issue for Australian healthcare.
Responses have been prepared to frequently asked questions (FAQs) to support auditing and other aspects of implementation of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
Please let us know if you have further questions to include.
Data on hand hygiene compliance are collected by states and territories for all public health service organisations, and by many private health service organisations, and reported nationally three times per year for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
The National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) operates a Help Desk to support users of the NHHI Learning Management System (LMS) and the Hand Hygiene Compliance Application (HHCApp).
The Help Desk team endeavours to respond to your enquiry as quickly as possible. You will receive a response within 5 business days.
There are a number of tools available to support hand hygiene auditing in acute and non-acute healthcare settings.
Hand hygiene compliance auditing is conducted to assess the effectiveness of hand hygiene programs in Australia, as part of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI). Hand hygiene compliance is assessed across both public and private Australian hospitals, consistent with AHMAC endorsed benchmark of 80 per cent.
The 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene approach was designed by the World Health Organization to minimise the risk of transmission of microorganisms between a healthcare worker, the patient, and the environment.
This page includes information on Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and reports on monitoring the burden of CDI in Australian hospitals.