Nurses’ roles in hand hygiene improvement initiatives, videos promoting hand hygiene awareness and the possible role sinks play in spreading germs captured the attention of infection control and ...

Chicago-based Shriners Hospitals for Children has several fun and effective ways to help staff to keep their hands clean, the Daily Nurse reports. Kim Romberg, MSN, RN, infection preventionist at ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

Job burnout reduces hand washing compliance among nurses, according to a study in the Journal of Patient Safety. Here are three things you need to know: 1. In the diary study, 40 registered nurses ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...

The majority of germs that cause serious infections in humans are transmitted by people’s actions. One of the effective means to prevent these infections is by practicing good hand hygiene. Several ...

It’s the pandemic mantra: Wash your hands – often. Do it with lots of soapy bubbles, scrubbing for a full 20 seconds (or the time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice). Rinse, dry and repeat as ...

As we get back into the world and the germs that inhabit it, we shouldn’t drop the hand-washing habits so many us adopted in the Covid era. By Jane E. Brody After a year of obsessive 20-second ...