Hand Washing Curriculum Train the Trainer Model

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Hand Washing CurriculumTrain the Trainer Model

• Kimberly Pelletier, Epidemiologist
• State of Connecticut
• Department of Public Health

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Background

• While I was working for the Naugatuck Valley
  Health District this was a project I worked on.
• The project was funded through NVHDs pandemic
  flu funding.

• The project was piloted at TEAM Inc.s Head Start
  Programs.
• I presented this curriculum to several hundred
  elementary school aged students at over 20
  elementary schools, both public and parochial, in
  Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Seymour
  and Shelton.

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Overview

• The objective of this curriculum is to educate
• children, and teachers as well, about the
  importance
• of effective and frequent hand washing.
• Students will learn how to fight the flu by
• being a COOL cougher, a SAFE sneezer and
• a HIP handwasher.

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Objectives

• Activity A Discussion on Germs
• Activity B Discussion on Colds and Flu
• Activity C Germs are Everywhere
• Activity D Discuss Barriers to Hand Washing
• Activity E Demonstrate Proper Hand Washing
• Activity F How Coughs and Sneezes Spread Germs
• Activity G Practice Covering a Cough or Sneeze
• Activity H Demonstrate Use of Hand Sanitizer
• Activity I Demonstrate Use of Hand Wipes

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Activity A Discussion on germs

• 1. Describe what germs are
• 2. Identify how germs can be spread
• from one person to another
• 3. Discuss simple ways to minimize
• the spread of germs

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Activity B Discussion on Colds and Flu

• 1. Describe some of the symptoms
• they may have experienced when
• they were ill
• 2. Identify that germs cause people to
• get sick with a cold or flu

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Activity C Germs are Everywhere

• Describe how germs can be
• spread from their hands to many
• surfaces
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Activity D Discuss Barriers to Hand Washing

• 1. Identify solutions to hand washing
• if they dont have access to a sink

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Activity E Demonstrate Proper Hand Washing

• Demonstrate the correct way to
• wash their hands and how to be a HIP
• handwasher
• 2. Talk their way through the process,
• if they do not have access to a sink

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Activity F How Coughs and Sneezes Spread Germs

• 1. Identify how germs get on their
• hands
• 2. Describe how germs spread from
• their hands to other surfaces

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Activity G Practice Covering a Cough or Sneeze

• 1. Demonstrate how they can be a
• SAFE sneezer and a COOL cougher
• 2. Discuss what happens to the germs
• if they cough and sneeze into
• their hands

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Activity H Demonstrate Use of Hand Sanitizer

• 1. Describe how they can sanitize
• their hands without hand washing
• Understand that sanitizers are
• not a replacement for
• hand washing

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Activity I Demonstrate Use of Hand Wipes

• Describe how they can sanitize
• their hands without hand washing
• Understand that hand wipes are
• not a replacement for hand washing

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Posters for Use in Schools
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Resources
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Conclusion

• For more information on how
• you can use this curriculum, please
• contact Deborah Horvath, Assistant
• Director of Health at the
• Naugatuck Valley Health District,
• at [phone].