Efforts to improve hand hygiene at health organizations must include nurses, according to an article at Becker's Hospital Review. Hospitals have long understood the importance of hand-hygiene ...

Health system is focusing on new technology and new innovations to improve patient safety, quality director says. Although observations showed a 90% hand hygiene compliance across the health system ...

Overt hand hygiene compliance audits have shown a large gap in compliance between nurses and physicians, with nurses washing their hands more often than physicians. But a new study in the Journal of ...

They study revealed nurses had an average burden of 55 hand hygiene opportunities per 24 hours, or 27 hand hygiene opportunities per shift. This is roughly three times higher than the burden ...

Nurses have reflected on the “critical importance” of good hand hygiene for safe and effective nursing care and have recognised the need to lead the way in this practice and stamp out unnecessary ...

Student nurses helped thousands of Glasgow primary school pupils in a Guinness World Record attempt on Wednesday, aimed at promoting the importance of good hand hygiene. Subscribe today for unlimited ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Evidence has suggested that inappropriate use of examination gloves was a significant cause of missed [hand ...

With all the reminders lately to wash your hands to prevent the spread of flu, you might feel like you're back in grade school. But it can be so hard to get people to follow proper hand hygiene that ...

Doctors and nurses in government hospitals were found washing their hands only 20% of the time even during the pandemic. Worse, only in less than one out of ten times did they follow all the essential ...

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