| dirty | | If this is located too far away, you may not wash your hands. |
| nails | | side-effect of washing your hands too much. |
| ecoli | | We should encourage __________ to remind health-care workers to decontaminate therir hands. |
| wash | | the main ingredient in hand rubs. |
| antimicrobial | | Health-care workers who wear gloves are less likely to do this to their hands |
| Semmelweis | | Healthcare workers can do this to their hands simply by touching an environmental surface. |
| dermatitis | | You should wash your hands for this many seconds. |
| education | | Healthcare workers who wear these on their hands can carry gram negative organisms for several months. |
| patients | | wash your hands when they are visibly ___________. |
| contact | | soap that contains an antiseptic agent |
| gloves | | The natural rubber that gloves are made from. |
| Lister | | when these are artificial, they harbor gram-negative pathogens. |
| FDA | | organism most frequently the cause of urinary tract infections. |
| contaminate | | The "father" of hand hygiene |
| bacteria | | Nurses in pediatric wards wash their hands this many times. |
| vinyl | | If you have an allergy to latex, you can wear _______ gloves. |
| eight | | This is an important factor for improvement with hand-hygiene practices. |
| sink | | Reproduces slowly on the hands after a surgical scrub with alcohol. |
| contamination | | Wearing gloves does not provide complete protection against hand _______________. |
| latex | | You can save this by implementing an effective hand-hygiene program. |
| fifteen | | This agency regulates the agents used in health-care antisepsis. |
| alcohol | | Used as an effective antiseptic since the 1800's but discolors the skin. |
| money | | The CDC recommends that health-care workers wear these to reduce the risk of acquiring infections from patients. |
| iodine | | In the late 1800s, this doctor promoted using carbolic acid for hand antisepsis. He is named after a mouth wash. |
| rings | | Decontaminate your hands before having direct patient ___________. |