Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction: Nurses are aware of the rationale for hand hygiene procedures. Nurses represent a large working group that performs the greatest amount of direct patient care in Health Services. Handhygiene is one of the most effective measures to prevent hospital acquired infections.Aim: to point out the importance of nurses’ hand hygieneMethod: a review of articles with key words “hand, hygiene, hand, contamination, nurse, and guideline”.Results: Infectious diseases are a particular risk to the very young, the elderly, those with a pre-existing disease, and people with a compromised immune system. Nurses washing their hands not onlyprevent them from getting sick, but it also reduces the risk of infecting others.
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2182004174