028-The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee

This week on The Official OSAP Podcast Michelle Lee we circle back to a previous episode to provide you information on the importance of hand hygiene. 

 

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In this week’s episode of The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee, Jessica Wilson, the International Business Development Manager for Instrument Management Systems and Infection Prevention at Hu-Friedy and member of the OSAP Board of Directors, joins Michelle to talk about the importance of hand hygiene.

 

Episode Highlights:

 

• How Jessica became involved in OSAP
• Jessica’s Boot Camp session regarding Hand Hygiene
• Some hand hygiene tips
• Common questions and misunderstandings about hand hygiene

 

Quotes:

 

“Take your phone out and set your timer, and make sure that you wash for 20 seconds.”

 

“Are you kidding me? We wear gloves – what’s the big deal?”

 

“In general, as a standard for health care providers, we should not have any type of artificial nails.”

 

“With hand hygiene, you should have written protocols to where you can provide that to a new employee regardless of where they worked before.”

 

“Besides the thermostat, infection control is the most debated topic in any dental practice today…there’s so much education that still needs to be done!”

 

Links:

The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:

http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/

 

The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429

 

OSAP’s homepage: https://www.osap.org/

 

Michelle Lee’s email:   mlee@osap.org

 

Hu-Friedy homepage:   https://www.hu-friedy.com/