Posted: June 21st, 2009 - 10:22am by Megan Hardigree

In Niles, Michigan, fourteen children, ages 8-10, attended the annual Lakeland Community Hospital’s ‘Take Your Child to Work Day.’ The primary lesson of the tour was emphasizing the hospitals’ top safety precaution: handwashing. JoEllen Gamso, RN, said, “The goal for the event was to identify the many ways that patient and associate safety is maintained in the workplace.” Before and after each department tour, every child was given a golf ball sized amount of hand-sanitizing foam to demonstrate the importance of clean hands.