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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"hand hygiene"”.
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Hand hygiene barriers and facilitators in Vietnam
… The applicability of the globally-accepted hand hygiene guidelines in Vietnam is questionable due to vast differences in available resources and unique contextual challenges. Hand hygiene compliance barriers in Vietnam therefore need to be identified to assist in adapting guidelines and …
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CNL as Educator in the Emergency Department: Improving Hand Hygiene Outcomes
… Patient Safety Goal. Proper and frequent hand hygiene (HH) prevents HAI and various cross-infections in any setting. Audits of visual adherence for HH generates low compliance scores. During a yearlong improvement project, low monthly compliance scores of 52% in the Emergency Department …
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Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance to Reduce CLABSI Rate in Oncology ICU
… in ICU to assess adherence to the facility’s hand hygiene (HH) protocol among the staff nurses and allied healthcare workers. The facility is best known as a non-profit cancer treatment center and designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Evidence showed that hand hygiene is the most …
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Hand hygiene compliance in the intensive care unit of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Hospital, South Africa
… infections (HAIs) in healthcare facilities and hand hygiene is the cornerstone of all IPC practices. Despite the effectiveness of IPC in the management of HAIs, its adoption in veterinary medicine has been limited. Additionally, there is paucity of data on IPC practices in veterinary medicine. …
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The role of patient involvement in the promotion of hand hygiene among nurses in the hospital setting
… role of patient involvement in the promotion of hand hygiene among nurses in the hospital setting. Methods: This qualitative PhD thesis is comprised of two studies; focus group discussions with nurses and interviews with patients. In the first study, focus group discussions (n = 7) were completed …
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A Study of a Simulated Infectious Disease on Healthcare Workers' Reaction, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Performance Towards Hand Hygiene
… infectious disease on healthcare workers' hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, performance, and reactions using Kirkpatrick's Four levels of Evaluation. The study utilized a mixed method pre-test – 2 post-test design. The dependent variables were hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes toward hand …
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Rankų higienos reikalavimų laikymosi vertinimas palaikomojo gydymo ir slaugos ligoninėse /
Background. Hand hygiene is the most important measure to prevent the spread of hospital infections in healthcare institutions, but low hand rub consumption in supportive treatment and nursing (ST&N) hospitals reflects inadequate hand hygiene in these hospitals. The aim of the study: To assess hand …
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Why healthcare workers don't wash their hands: a behavioural explanation
Hand-washing compliance was examined by thematic analysis of focus group discussions in nurses, mothers and children. Perceptions in these groups were identical, with the purpose of hand-cleansing seen as self-protection from infection. This assessment is not grounded in microbiology, but is …
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Developing and Evaluating Effective Interventions to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infection in A Resource-Limited Hospital in Thailand
… countries is poorly quantified. Moreover, hand hygiene compliance (amongst the most effective control measures) is often low and high quality research into how to improve it is largely lacking outside high income settings. I aimed to: I) describe the burden and trends in healthcare …
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Investigating the Validity of an Implicit Measurement Procedure for Habit: An Example Using Hand Washing
… Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT) to measure hand hygiene habit strength. I evaluate the concurrent and convergent validity of the Hand Hygiene SC-IAT (HH SC-IAT). I demonstrate that scores on the HH SC-IAT capture associations between hand hygiene cues and behavioural performance for …
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Improving Compliance in the Use of Catheter Kit Supplied Hand Sanitizer Prior to the Insertion of an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
… operating room (OR) department do not perform hand hygiene prior to insertion of an indwelling urinary catheter. This performance improvement project aims to educate all OR staff nurses on the practice of hand hygiene prior to the insertion of an indwelling urinary catheter by using the hand …
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Reducing Clostridium Difficile
… the chain of infection through proper hand hygiene and posters, and educating staff and patients about proper hand hygiene are substantial methods that has shown to reduce the number of CDI. Throughout the entire organization, the most recent reports identified a total of 68 CDI. …
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Διερεύνηση της συμμόρφωσης των επαγγελματιών υγείας στην υγιεινή των χεριών
… CINAHL και Google Scholar με τις λέξεις κλειδιά “hand hygiene”, “hand hygiene compliance”, “health care measurement” και “healthcare professionals”, για το χρονικό διάστημα 2015–2025. Η επιλογή των μελετών έγινε βάσει προκαθορισμένων κριτηρίων ένταξης και αποκλεισμού. Τελικά συμπεριλήφθηκαν 14 …
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Epidemiology of Hospital Acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in A Veterans Affairs Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury Unit: Fiscal Years 2008-2011
… BMI, LOS, MRSA colonization, and quarterly hand hygiene compliance. The patient population was described using appropriate univariate descriptive statistics and crude odd ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) calculated. The most common sources of infection for cases were ulcer …
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Utilizing Pre-education Assessment and a Targeted Education Module to Enhance Nurse Knowledge of Standard and Transmissible Precautions
… <p>I propose that the reason compliance with hand hygiene is low at any facility can be explained by Rosenstock’s Health Belief Model. Nurses may not believe that 1) There is a high chance of spreading or themselves contracting infectious illness, 2) That the illnesses they are exposed to …
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Characterization of E. coli strains from rural communities in the Vhembe District (Limpopo South Africa)
… scarcity, issues concern poor sanitation and hygiene practices results in serious public health problems and allows E. coli to be transmitted from infected human or animal faeces to a new susceptible host using environmental reservoirs such as soil, water, hands as the transmission pathway. …
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Using information technology to model hand-washing behavior and to improve policies impacting elementary school absenteeism due to influenza
… posed was as following: “What is the e?ect of hand hygiene on the possible incidence rates among school children?” After creating an agent-based model representing the in?uenza transmission dynamic, the incidence rates were calculated based on the hand-washing success rates. The statistical …
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DNP project : improving childhood wellness knowledge in a mid-Michigan community
… Extension and sessions incorporated play-based, hands-on learning strategies to enhance engagement and retention. Data was collected using pre- and post-intervention "Sound Off Surveys" and analyzed using descriptive statistics to assess changes in knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes. Results …
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