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 ...

The use of examination gloves in hospitals may present a barrier to hand hygiene, especially among nurses, according to a study cited by Healio. According to the World Health Organization ...

Glove use in health care settings is a potential barrier to hand hygiene, especially among nurses, according to study findings published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. “Hand ...

The WHO Five Moments for Hand Hygiene (Sax et al, 2007) removes ambiguity, promotes a standardised approach to monitoring and – most importantly – clarifies when hand hygiene should occur. Rather than ...

Involving nurses has been a core tenant of the hand hygiene efforts at Mayo Clinic Florida in Jacksonville for years. Based on internal hand hygiene audits at the institution, compliance tends to ...

Four nurse-led interventions helped increase hand hygiene compliance by approximately 66 percent in six months at a Chinese hospital, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.

If hand hygiene wasn't at the forefront of everybody's mind before, it certainly is – or should be – now. But I’m not talking about nurses, although I have seen some dubious hand-washing techniques in ...

Doctors lag behind nurses in hand hygiene in hospitals, despite widespread evidence that alcohol-based hand rub is the cheapest and most effective way to prevent infection, according to a new study.

(HealthDay News) — A multifaceted intervention can improve hand hygiene compliance among emergency nurses and technicians, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of ...

The hand hygiene technology showed that Cox's suspicions about the high compliance rate were correct. Some nurse leaders expected the new system to show compliance rates similar to the 80–90% ...

Improving compliance with hand hygiene practices has been a challenge in all healthcare facilities including the long-term care (LTC) setting. One of the most common modes of transmission of ...

BOSTON — Reducing the nurse-to-patient ratio to 1:1 yielded the most significant decreases in transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to results of a computational ...