Our hands are the home for microorganisms which live on one's skin surface. Mostly, these microorganisms are harmless. But the hands can become infected with germs that are harmful to the body, while ...

Despite being a pillar of preventing the spread of germs, hand hygiene compliance rates remain dismal in many healthcare settings. That said, research on how to boost compliance and establish best ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

Hand hygiene is the simplest, most effective way to prevent the spread of infections in healthcare, yet healthcare worker adherence is often low. Infection preventionists at two health systems will ...

Two acute-care health systems have substantially improved employee hand hygiene compliance using technology that pinpoints missed opportunities and improves accountability. That’s according to ...

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 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides a free, downloadable hand hygiene/glove use observation tool for recording staff hand hygiene practices. The VA describes the purpose of the tool is to ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective methods of preventing healthcare-associated infections. However, prevention depends on hand hygiene being performed when necessary, and the appropriate ...

Infection prevention begins with fundamentals, and there is nothing more fundamental than hand hygiene. However, there is a lot of confusion in the industry regarding the placement of alcohol-based ...

Healthcare professionals are exposed to pathogens frequently throughout the day – whether through close contact with patients or interaction with high touch surfaces such as doorknobs, bedrails, or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the ...