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 ...

After the training period, students observed healthcare workers engaging in hand hygiene. Sign up for our FREE E-Weekly for more coverage like this sent to your inbox!

Hand hygiene education should not end with one training session or test; it should be a continual process of learning that reminds healthcare workers of the importance of hand hygiene and maintains ...

Hand Hygiene The final tenet of OAI prevention is a common global health promotion process. This method of infection prevention serves as an important connection between PPE and the pathogen itself, ...

A: Practicing hand hygiene often and well is the easiest and most effective way to prevent the spread of disease, both in a healthcare setting and at home. Dental providers, like any other healthcare ...

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 ...

The campaign aims to improve learning methodologies to enable the implementation of innovative and effective training that will empower healthcare workers to improve hand hygiene and prevent and ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has named the latest winners of the Wazoku crowdsourcing challenge which launched in April 2024 and focused on finding solutions to improve hand hygiene for ...

“Medical gloves can reduce the risk of infection, but they are never a replacement for hand hygiene,” said Dr Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, Life Course.

Researchers followed nine medical students through their experiences in a basic hand hygiene course and workshop taught to World Health Organization standards. After the training period, students ...