Q: Are Muslim nurses excused from washing their hands before medical procedures in Britain? A: No. That is an old misrepresentation that has been circulating online since 2010. A false story that ...

Researchers tracked alcohol-based handrub use for six months through an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system. Hand hygiene product use and total hours worked were calculated for staff to ...

One of the best ways to prevent the spread of infection in hospitals is to make sure doctors and nurses wash their hands. But studies have shown that health-care professionals sometimes wash as little ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there is one group of clinicians that is particularly pivotal to the success of any quality improvement initiatives — including though regarding hand hygiene compliance — it’s the nurses who work ...

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 ...

Running from patient room to patient room, it can be surprisingly easy for doctors and nurses to forget to wash their hands, especially if they’re dealing with an emergency. Hospitals have been ...

Here are three things you need to know: 1. In the diary study, 40 registered nurses working in a general city hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece completed a questionnaire. They were monitored for hand ...

— -- For doctors and nurses, hand hygiene is supposed to be as intuitive as breathing. But is this behavior really second-nature, or do health care workers need supervision to keep their hand ...

For years there have been two leading authorities on hand washing: the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). WHO promotes a six-step technique ...

Wexham Park Hospital leads the UK’s first “water-safe” overhaul, removing sinks from wards to combat rising antimicrobial-resistant infections and rethinking everything clinicians know about hygiene ...