Handwashing Songs

To avoid spreading infection, hands must be washed for 15 seconds between patients. To make sure that we are washing our hands long enough, we have been instructed to sing songs when washing our hands. (Silently, thank goodness.)

Recommended songs for nurses are Yankee Doodle Dandy or Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Surgeons scrubbing for surgery, sing 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. (Just kidding about the surgeons.)

Being something of a rebel, this is my song:
I never will marry,
I'll be no man's wife,
I pledge to remain single,
for the rest of my life.

Last night I found fresh blood under one of my fingernails and it wasn't mine. I had been wearing gloves and had washed my hands. I'm not happy about that. I may need a longer song and a nail scrubbing brush. Better gloves would also be nice.