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5 moments for
#HandHygiene
1. Before touching a patient
2. Before a clean/aseptic procedure
3. After body fluid exposure risk
4. After touching a patient
5. After touching patient surroundings
Hand hygiene saves lives!
Today is World
#HandHygiene
Day and we’re encouraging healthcare colleagues to reduce unnecessary glove use. By practising good
#HandHygiene
when gloves aren’t needed, together we can protect patients, staff and the environment
The Chat is a conversation with parents and carers about where, what, when, why and how children and young people learn about relationships, sexual health and parenthood. The Chat national survey is now open.
In hospitals, the lack of
#HandHygiene
can cause:
🔸 infections
🔸 avoidable treatment
🔸 even death
#CleanHands
save lives & reduce costs.
Let’s work together to keep more people safe:
Last but by no means least in our
#IDM2024
series is Ruth Malcolm who is part of the community midwifery team in Moray & Banff. She said: “I feel privileged to look after and care for women and their families all the way through their pregnancy and postnatally. Best job ever.”
#IDM2024
Celebrating International Day of the Midwife 🤍
30 years of midwifery & I’m still learning every day. Grateful to the colleagues who support & motivate & all the wonderful families who have included us
@NHSGrampian
@DrGrays_Elgin
On
#IDM2024
we’d now like to introduce you to Connie Sims and Kerri Morrison who are part of the Keith/Speyside community midwifery team, covering as far up as Tomintoul. They are currently in the process of re-establishing a local breastfeeding group. Well done, ladies!
Lynne Ritchie and Karen Orr are next up in our
#IDM
showcase. They provide contraceptive counselling and post-natal sub dermal implant insertion at the midwifery-led unit within Dr Gray’s Hospital. This can be easily accessed in the immediate post-natal period.
#IDM2024
On International Day of the Midwife, we’re introducing you to some of our fantastic community midwifery team members. Meet Julie Picksley, Karen Orr and Ashley Robson who are specially trained in providing aromatherapy and acupressure treatments.
#IDM2024
#MidwivesAndClimate
Midwives are
#SRH
champions! Offering education, contraception, abortion care, & support, empowering women to manage their reproductive health. This not only promotes women’s rights & economic resilience, it reduces vulnerability to climate change.
#IDM2024
#MidwivesAndClimate
HIV has changed.
Yet misinformation and stigma still remain.
Ensure you are up to date with the latest advancements in
#HIV
and let your friends know too 🔻
A big thank you to our infant breastfeeding coordinator, Yasmin Roberts, who's taken the time to explain a bit more about how her team's work contributes to "a healthier planet with healthier families" on
#IDM2024
. Have a listen to her short clip:
Today is World
#HandHygiene
Day and we’re encouraging healthcare colleagues to reduce unnecessary glove use. By practising good
#HandHygiene
when gloves aren’t needed, together we can protect patients, staff and the environment
Today is International Day of the Midwife & we'd like to thanks our wonderful Specialist Midwife
@ShonaMcCann7
you are so appreciated by staff and patients alike 💙
Also a shout out to all our midwifery colleagues in
@NHSGrampian
. Thank you for all you do🙏
#IDM2024
Happy International Day of the Midwife to all the midwives out there, & in
@NHSGrampian
for the fantastic care and support they deliver to woman and families. Hope you have been able to take part in
@parkrunUK
or celebrate in your own way
@ColvilleKatie
@liz1cheung
#IDM2024