Equipment & Supplies Planning Guide

Recommendations on how to develop a “Getting Started” plan for
Best Practice implementation.

• Involve Person-In-Charge and other “accountable” staff in development of priorities and the action plan.
• Where appropriate involve suppliers of hand hygiene services and products in establishing final timelines that are realistic in your environment.

Make the plan realistic and achievable.

Handwashingforlife Institute (HFLI) suggests:

• Only take on one action item from process and one action item from Equipment and Supplies at a time.
• Don’t move to the next items on priority list until current item is completed.

Use HFLI ranking system as a guide to developing your own priority list:

• Group the actions by priority ranking and implement them in this priority Do 1A first, then 1B, then 2A, then 2B
• With in these groupings, do the short timeline, quick win items first-week projects before 1-month projects.
• Use a calendar to block off the sequencing of projects and chedule follow up meeting/review on each target