When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Historical perspectiveHand hygiene is recognized by infection prevention and control experts as the single most important intervention in decreasing the spread of infection in both healthcare and ...

Infection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene (HH) protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, not just hospital settings. This includes nursing homes, according to a new ...

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 ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined hand hygiene rates at five tertiary care facilities over six months. The hospitals had implemented electronic hand hygiene ...

From hand hygiene to aseptic technique, infection control is at the heart of safe healthcare. Updated CDC guidelines, new research on disinfectants, and innovative teaching methods are shaping how ...

When’s the last time your employees lined up during lunch breaks for voluntary training? Proving again that healthcare workers are among the world’s most resourceful, a team from the Central Texas ...

Infection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene (HH) protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, not just hospital settings. This includes nursing homes, according to a new ...

Think for a moment about a conversation that you have had that left you unsettled. Maybe it was the content of the conversation, the subject matter questioning the very essence of the values of the ...

Hand hygiene may feel like a simple, barely consequential health practice. But it has the power to save lives — including in nursing homes, where infections are common. Researchers studied 26 French ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a 30 second application of a six-step hand washing and hand rub regimen that could keep infections away. New research titled, 'Simplifying the WHO ...

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 ...