The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free training tool designed to facilitate employee training on hand hygiene. The interactive hand hygiene education, presented as a slide show ...

Infectious diseases are increasingly threatening public health worldwide, with various viral, bacterial, and fungal infections resulting in millions of fatalities annually. The past decade has ...

The course, and associated promotional materials, reviews key concepts of hand hygiene and other standard precautions to prevent healthcare-associated infections. Topics addressed include: What are ...

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care. While medical gloves ...

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...

You should listen to your mother: always wash your hands. That’s especially true if you work in health care, where poor hand hygiene can be matter of life and death. moreBy one 2002 estimate, 1.7 ...

Handwashing is one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect your health. Every day, people touch door handles, mobile phones, money, public transport surfaces and many other objects that may ...

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 ...

The leading infection prevention and control (IPC) protocol remains hand hygiene adherence. In healthcare and food care ...

When our community was faced with a limited supply of flu vaccine in 2004, our infection control and liaison nurses decided to implement a respiratory and hand hygiene awareness campaign in our local ...