Promoting Patient and Visitor Hand Hygiene: A Win-Win Initiative
Events, such as the H1N1 pandemic, trends in patient safety initiatives and a focus by hospitals on improving the patient experience have expanded the need and focus for hand hygiene awareness to patients and visitors in healthcare settings.

This webinar will provide detailed information on why patient and visitor hand hygiene deserves your attention and what you can do to create a culture where proper hand hygiene is a standard practice by all audiences in your facility.

Better Ways to Measure Hand Hygiene Compliance and Successfully Engage your Staff: Lessons from the Field
Presented at the Hand Hygiene Symposium sponsored by GOJO at APIC June 27, 2015 with presenters Emily Landon, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, specializing in infectious diseases and global health, University of Chicago and Michael Gardam, MSc, MD, CM, MSc, FRPC, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, University Health Network; and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto. View symposium videos at the AJIC website

The Present and Future of Hand Hygiene Compliance Measurement: Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities
Presented at the Hand Hygiene Symposium sponsored by GOJO at APIC June 7, 2014 with presenters Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE, Claire Kilpatrick, RN, PGDip, Phil Polgreen, MD, MPH, and Dr. William Jarvis, MD. View symposium videos at the AJIC website

Point of Care: Clean Hands Do Save Lives – Simplifying the Message
Presented at the Hand Hygiene Symposium sponsored by GOJO at APIC June 8, 2013 with presenters Julie Storr, B.N. and Claire Kilpatrick, R.N., independent consultants with the World Health Organization. View symposium videos at the AJIC website

Implementing an Effective Hand Hygiene Program: Current Thought Leader Perspectives
Presented at the Hand Hygiene Symposium sponsored by GOJO at APIC 2012 on June 3rd, 2012 Featuring John Boyce, MD, William Jarvis, MD., David Macinga, PhD., Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE, and Nimalie Stone, MD. View symposium videos at the AJIC website

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Healthcare Antiseptics Tentative Final Monograph (TFM): What Does it Really Mean?
This webinar explains what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Healthcare Antiseptics Tentative Final Monograph (TFM) is and summarizes recent changes. It also reviews current alcohol safety science within the context of healthcare worker use of alcohol-based hand hygiene. View webinar at the ITC website

Outbreak Investigations
At some point in your Infection Prevention career, you will be faced with investigating an outbreak. Every Infection Preventionist needs to know the basics of an outbreak investigation. This webinar will provide an overview of the steps for investigating an outbreak along with helpful, real-world, and practical tips. Lastly, it will review three outbreaks from the literature and what you can learn from them. The information in this webinar is designed for novice and experienced Infection Preventionists alike. Next time you get the dreaded phone call on Friday at 4 pm, you'll be ready. View webinar at the ITC website

Hand Hygiene Programs in Outpatient Settings
Infection prevention and hand hygiene are not always top-of-mind in outpatient settings, which are generally considered to be “low risk.” However, this could not be further from the truth. This webinar will review the minimum standards for safe care in outpatient settings, describe why hand hygiene is so critical and review the elements of a multi-modal approach for a hand hygiene program in an outpatient setting with practical examples and tips. View webinar at the ITC website

How Todays Advanced Hand Hygiene Compliance Technology Fits the Evolving Hospital Environment
After a decade of innovation, electronic compliance monitoring (ECM) is a hot topic in healthcare. State-of-the-art advancements have made these systems more accurate, intuitive, efficient and robust than ever. GOJO Industries is among companies on the leading edge. Listen to the webinar to learn why this dynamic technology is so ripe for hospital investment. Learn More

Evaluating Resources Critically: How to Become an Effective Consumer of Research
Infection Preventionists (IP) are major consumers of research and are often charged with recommending and developing policies and procedures for the prevention and control of infection based on the best evidence available. Therefore, it is important that IPs are able to critically evaluate literature that is relevant to their practice. Reading literature critically and assessing its quality can be daunting, but understanding research design principles is vital to the process. Critically evaluating literature is a skill that needs to be learned, practiced and developed and will assist IPs in determining when research should influence practice. View webinar at the ITC website

Challenges and Solutions for Measuring Hand Hygiene Compliance
Learn about enhanced hand hygiene monitoring and electronic monitoring systems from the hand hygiene leaders. This webinar describes current methods for measuring hand hygiene compliance, discusses pros and cons of each measurement system, and explains the potential impact of enhanced Hand Hygiene data collection on patient outcomes.

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A Success Story: The Impact of Changing Hand Hygiene Behavior
Explore the concept of positive deviance and healthcare worker empowerment and learn how it is applied to infection control and how it has significantly improved its healthcare worker hand hygiene rates at one facility.

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What's the big deal about hand hygiene?
As the inventor of PURELL®, GOJO has a long-standing history focused on developing solutions that help to:

Increase hand hygiene compliance
Reduce infections
Improve patient outcomes

By partnering with a number of hospital systems across the world we have merged our science with clinically-based best practices to improve hand hygiene and the skin of healthcare workers.

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