Our Hand Hygiene Policy
22 Mayıs 2023

1. Reminding all employees, patients, patient companions and visitors of the fact that hand hygiene is the most effective way to prevent healthcare-associated infections, 

2. To raise awareness of healthcare professionals that hand hygiene is an important, simple and effective method in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections,

3. Developing multidisciplinary and multidimensional programs to increase compliance with hand hygiene practices,

4. To obtain the support of managers in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections, and in the implementation of the Hand Hygiene Policy throughout the institution,

5. To plan and implement trainings for the continuity of hand hygiene,

6. In order to keep the hand hygiene compliance rate high; Adopting hand hygiene as an institutional priority and ensuring the continuity of efforts to improve it,

7. Reminding that the practice of hand hygiene in accordance with the “Hand Hygiene Instruction” is among the main duties of all our employees during and after the provision of health services,

8. Hand hygiene practices; To ensure that it covers all applications including hand washing, hand washing with antiseptic, rubbing with alcohol hand antiseptic and surgical hand antisepsis,
9. The importance of hand hygiene for healthcare workers, the "5 Indications for Hand Hygiene" rule, hand hygiene methods and practices, gloves
10. To make plans for the institutional and physical environment to increase compliance with hand hygiene, to carry out activities, to improve compliance rates and to ensure continuity. ,

11. To follow the hand hygiene compliance of healthcare workers,
12. To give attention-grabbing,  understandable,  reminder messages to the focus group in order to increase compliance with hand hygiene, and to highlight role models that can serve as a precedent,

13. In cases where compliance with hand hygiene cannot be achieved, researching the cause and carrying out improvement studies,

14. To provide recording and evaluation of hand hygiene observations and feedback of compliance rates.