Question

Explain the importance of personal cleanliness to the healthcare workers in a healthcare facility. Include your thoughts on why this skill is named "Displaying Good Grooming, Personal Hygiene, and Cleanliness."

Answer 1

Healthcare setting is a wider area where health care professionals come.across a number of patients of varied diseases .So it is highly possible for then to acquire these infectious agent from these patients while providing care. If health care professionals care for other patient without hygienic practice can be a cause for making patient further sick and infection .They can be a source of infection to other colleagues, visitors, patient, etc., Apart from this good grooming gives patients sense of hope and trudt for patients to approach them and seek help. Hence it is highly recommended and important to maintain cleanliness by health care professionals in healthcare facility .