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Tork is offering a cutting-edge virtual reality training simulation aimed at improving hand hygiene in healthcare.
Manufacturer Essity collaborated with behavioral scientists, university hospitals and global hand hygiene experts in developing this ground-breaking tool.
Tork VR Clean Hands Training and Education uses virtual reality to provide healthcare staff with realistic scenarios where hand hygiene needs to be carried out. Essity believes it is one of the first companies ever to use VR in a hand hygiene training simulation.
Essity Sales Manager, Liam Mynes, said: “Tork VR Clean Hands is designed to make hand hygiene training more engaging and inspiring. Participants put on their VR headset and prepare to start a new shift at their healthcare workplace.
“They then face a series of real-life situations in the virtual world where they are expected to practice hand hygiene compliance – using their own hands. If they fail to perform hand hygiene at the right moment, they can try again and will soon learn to adopt excellent hand hygiene standards both in the virtual and in the real world.”
The participating healthcare worker takes on the role of a nurse or physician in a hospital unit where they are tasked with caring for several patients. Their results are assessed on how far they comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘5 Moments for Hand Hygiene’.
Professor Didier Pittet, Director, Infection Prevention and Control Program at the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva, Switzerland, commented: “Healthcare professionals are well aware of the importance of hand hygiene – and this is part of their training. The exciting thing about this innovative training in virtual reality is that it allows professionals to test their knowledge in a safe simulation of a patient environment and to receive direct feedback – and to learn from mistakes.”
A total of 80% of healthcare professionals would like to improve their hand hygiene compliance according to a recent study commissioned by Tork. When 1000 healthcare professionals in five countries were polled, six out of every 10 said they would like hand hygiene to be given a higher priority in their unit. And 40% called for better hand hygiene training.
Tork VR Clean Hands Training and Education is free to download via App Store and Google Play, and participants need a compatible smartphone and VR headset with remote control or equivalent.
www.tork.co.uk/torkvr Hyatt ditches single-use plastics
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is the latest big chain to pledge to ditch mini toiletries in their hotels in an effort to reduce single-use plastic waste, following Marriott and InterContinental (IHG).
Hyatt, which operates 875 hotels across 60 different countries and includes brands such as Alila, Park Hyatt and Andaz, will be replacing single-use bottles of shower gel, shampoo, conditioner and body lotions with large-format amenities by June 2021.
Alongside the new large-format dispensers, the chain plans to increase the amount of refillable water stations for guests, with bottled water only available by request. For meetings and events, water will be served in carafes or other containers with bottled water only available via request.
Plastic straws and drink picks have already been removed from hotels, and the chain say that it will increase the amount of compostable, recyclable or recycled packing it offers guests for takeaway food.
Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO of Hyatt, said: “At Hyatt, our purpose – we care for people so they can be their best – guides all business decisions, including our global sustainability framework, which focuses on using resources responsibly and helping address today’s most pressing environmental issues. Plastic pollution is a global issue, and we hope our efforts will motivate guests, customers and ourselves to think more critically about our use of plastic.”
www.hyattthrive.com
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