Hand Hygiene (Handwashing) — 방법
Hand hygiene is the one skill every NNAAP candidate is tested on, and it is the foundation of everything else in the Skills Evaluation. The whole skill is about one idea: keep germs and dirty water moving off your fingertips and into the sink, and never let a clean hand touch a dirty surface. Follow these steps in order — the timing and the faucet step are where most people fail.
단계별
- 1
Turn on the water and adjust it to a warm, comfortable temperature. Keep your body and clothing away from the sink for the entire skill.
- 2
Remove your rings and watch and push your sleeves up above your wrists.
- 3
Wet your hands and wrists thoroughly, keeping your hands lower than your elbows with your fingertips pointing down.필수
- 4
Apply soap — after your hands are already wet, never onto dry skin.
- 5
Lather and scrub every surface with friction for at least 20 seconds: palms, backs of the hands, between and around each finger, thumbs, wrists, and under the fingernails.필수
- 6
Clean under your fingernails by rubbing them against your opposite palm or using a nail brush.
- 7
Rinse from your wrists down to your fingertips, fingertips pointing down, so the water runs off your fingertips into the sink. Do not touch the inside of the sink.
- 8
Dry your hands with a clean, dry paper towel, moving from your fingers toward your wrists, then drop the towel in the trash.
- 9
Turn off the faucet with a NEW, clean, dry paper towel — never with your bare clean hand.필수
필수 단계 (놓치지 마세요)
- Scrub with friction for at least 20 seconds. Anything shorter is a scored failure.
- Turn the faucet off with a clean paper towel, not your bare hand — the handle is contaminated and will recontaminate a clean hand (an automatic-fail point).
- Do not let your body, clothing, or hands touch the inside of the sink after washing.
- Wet your hands before applying soap, and keep your fingertips pointing down while washing and rinsing.
흔한 실수
- Turning the faucet off with a bare hand after drying — this recontaminates the hand and fails the skill.
- Scrubbing for only a few seconds instead of a full 20+.
- Letting a sleeve or the front of a uniform touch the sink.
- Applying soap to dry hands, or holding the fingertips up so water runs back down onto the arms.
왜 중요한가
Every rule traces back to one idea: dirty water carries microbes, so it must run OFF your fingertips into the sink and never back onto clean skin. That is why your hands stay below your elbows with fingertips down, why you scrub long enough (20+ seconds) to physically lift germs off the skin, and why the contaminated faucet handle is only ever touched with a paper towel — a clean hand that touches it is dirty again.