In a clinical setting, a three-step hand hygiene protocol resulted in higher compliance with both hand hygiene technique and indications compared with the six-step method endorsed by WHO, according to ...

Each year more than 1.7 million patients in the United States acquire infections while in healthcare facilities. Refreshing basic steps for hand hygiene is crucial for the survival of the healthcare ...

The World Health Organization has created posters to help organizations improve hand hygiene — one showing proper hand washing steps and one providing proper hand ...

Healthcare workers can follow all of the World Health Organization’s recommended hand hygiene steps for using alcohol-based hand rub, but still make mistakes and miss some areas of their hands, ...

The tune of a popular nursery rhyme can be used to help children remember the six-step hand hygiene technique recommended by the World Health Organization, according to an article in the BMJ. The tune ...

Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, we have to learn how to wash our hands properly. This isn’t only for this risky period, but also for general hygiene even after this virus is long gone. A proper hand ...

Hand-washing is an easy way to prevent infection. Understand when to wash your hands, how to properly use hand sanitizer and how to get your children into the habit. Frequent hand-washing is one of ...

Now that we know many nursing homes don’t meet hand-washing guidelines, let the hand-wringing begin. Hopefully with a generous squirt of anti-microbial sanitizer in the palm first. It’s a genuinely ...