Canadian Health and Hygiene - A Personal and Professional Perspective by Dr. Caroline Quach
Personal/ Professional Efforts - Health and Hygiene Education
As a mother:
- Taught my children how and when to wash their hands
- Taught them respiratory etiquette
- Kept their vaccination up-to-date, and some more and vaccinated household contacts, high-risk individuals against influenza yearly
- Did not give them antibiotics for viral URTI and counselled friends and relatives in watchful waiting
- Tried to keep my kitchen as safe as possible and taught my children how to do so
- Is an ongoing, permanent process
As a caregiver (pediatrician/ ID/ medical microbiologist):
- Chair of the Infection Prevention Committee in Daycares (Provincial MOH Committee) - hand hygiene education, respiratory etiquette, new Guide soon to be launched
- Organized yearly workshops in my children's classes to teach them hand washing and to show them how contaminated high-touch surfaces could be
- Part of the Infection Control Team - chair of the ICC
- Multiple Hand Hygiene Campaign/Interventions
- Judicious use of antibiotics
- Influenza vaccination campaign and much more
- Give conferences on vaccination, nosocomial infections
- Member of the Quebec Immunization Committee
- Education of patients and their parents regarding hand hygiene
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