For example, Mayo nurses have patients audit their providers' hand hygiene in the form of questionnaires, which serve as the basis for quarterly reports. Nurses teach the patients what to look for ...

A multifaceted intervention can improve hand hygiene compliance among emergency nurses and technicians.

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

Four nurse-led interventions helped increase hand hygiene compliance by approximately 66 percent in six months at a Chinese hospital.

But if you start out at a higher baseline hand hygiene compliance level and continue to improve, you will do better than most changes in nurse-to-patient ratio.

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 ...

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% ...

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.

Maintaining good hand hygiene is key to prevent the spread of infections, but old habits are hard to break.

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. &ldquo ...

I think for me the hand hygiene light should be going on in every nurse’s head, not on a badge. The need to clean your hands between patients should an intuitive and automatic part of nursing practice ...

High school students interested in nursing practiced their suture skills on Thursday at King University’s Nursing Camp. Nurse ...