Obviously in order to enhance medical asepsis, you must practice good personal hygiene. Also, it is much more pleasant for the patient as well as the care provider to be near with someone who smells fresh and look clean.

Important Guidelines for Personal Hygiene:

1. Arrange hair in such a way that it does not fall forward when you lean forward towards the patients. Keep your hair short or restrain it in some way that it does not fall forward. Remember that your hair is usually less clean than your hands because it is not washed as frequently as your hands.
2. Keep your fingernails clean and trimmed and filed short, so as not to endanger patient by scratching them or by harboring bacteria.
3. It is best to remove all you hand jewelry’s before doing any procedure, because it is place for the microorganism to lodge and multiply.