The HES’s national "RESIST" hand hygiene campaign had a launch and demonstration recently in the Tramore Primary Care Centre.
The HSE Dublin and South East Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Nursing Team organised and promoted the RESIST Day in Tramore, whose aim is to support and educate staff on Hand Hygiene and promote Anti-Microbial Resistance and Infection Control (AMRIC) and “RESIST”.
RESIST is a brand for a number of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control initiatives under the HSE Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Programme (AMRIC). One of these initiatives is a rollout of the RESIST hand hygiene awareness programme. The programme promotes a combination of hand hygiene training with standardised national training materials.
Hand hygiene has been at the forefront of all of the initiatives that the HSE has been implementing to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The RESIST campaign is to refresh the HSE’s hand hygiene messages and to keep promoting the importance of clean hands.
The HSE’s Tramore Primary Care Centre opened in 2013. The centre facilitates co-location for a multidisciplinary group of health and social care professionals to deliver primary care services to the local population in that part of Co. Waterford. There is also a GP practice in the centre.
Speaking about the event in Tramore, Miranda Jones (HSE Staff Officer) said:
“Cleaning your hands properly, at the correct time, when delivering care to our patients, is the most effective way to stop the spread of many infections including COVID-19. When healthcare workers like doctors, nurses and carers, keep their hands clean, they help prevent the spread of serious healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). These are infections that can happen in any healthcare service.”
“Tramore Primary Care Centre and our HSE services locally have an excellent record in hand hygiene but we are always looking to improve our standards. The RESIST programme will help us to refresh and energise our hand hygiene approach among both staff and patients and we are delighted to have been selected to be part of the rollout in Primary Care”
Speaking at the launch in Tramore, Pamela Landers (HSE Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Nurse Specialist for Waterford) added:
“As a programme, RESIST is not just aimed at those delivering care, but at everyone who comes into a healthcare facility, including patients and visitors. We will be intensifying the campaign across the South East over the coming months and are delighted that Tramore Primary Care Centre has taken part in promoting such an important programme”
“The IPC team wished to extend a special thank you to Miranda Jones (Staff Officer) and Sean McGuirk (Community Healthcare Network Manager) who highlighted the event to all areas within the facility resulting in a large turn out and great participation from all staff disciplines on the day.”
Last updated on: 15 / 11 / 2024
