Conocimiento en higiene de manos del personal de salud del Hospital de Monte Sinaí.

Abstract

Among the measures that we must fight against infections associated with health care (IASS), hand hygiene is considered by the World Health Organization as the main measure to combat and reduce IASS, because most infections related to healthcare occur by contact and horizontal transmission. This makes hand hygiene one of the priority measures to improve health care safety by promoting the supply of hydroalcoholic solutions, training health professionals for their use, and assessing compliance. The objective of this research is to determine the knowledge in hand hygiene by the health personnel of the Monte Sinaí hospital in the city of Guayaquil, for this a descriptive, quantitative, prospective study was carried out on a sample of 30 people who agreed to be included in the research based on the questionnaire about knowledge about hand hygiene that, due to the current situation due to COVID-19, was carried out through a link through the Google Form platform. The characteristics of the health personnel, the level of respect for the most frequent sources of germs that cause infections related to health care, as well as the prevention of transmission of microorganisms to the patient as well as to the staff and the elements that they deem necessary, were described. friction or hand washing during various situations.