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Nov 13, 2020 · Abstract. Personal hygiene may be defined as a pr actice contributing to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through. cleanliness of a personal individual. Good hygiene is a ...
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Sep 26, 2022 · Assisting patients with basic hygiene creates a personal connection between the healthcare provider and the patient and is vital to maintaining the patient’s health. It is the responsibility of the healthcare professional to balance the proper amount of grooming; too much grooming and too little grooming can both have negative effects. There are various healthcare settings and patients; thus ...
- Alyssa L. Goldenhart, Hassan Nagy
- 2022/09/26
- 2021
Dec 28, 2023 · Hand hygiene and its efficacy in controlling the spread of infection is well evidenced. Research shows that hand hygiene is one of the more significant strategies for preventing the spread of microorganisms (Luangasanatip et al., 2015; Schweizer et al., 2014) and is applicable to practitioners and the public in controlling the spread of disease.
Introduction. Hand hygiene is now regarded as one of the most important element of infection control activities. In the wake of the growing burden of health care associated infections (HCAIs), the increasing severity of illness and complexity of treatment, superimposed by multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogen infections, health care practitioners ...
- Quantitative Strand: Staff Survey Results
- Qualitative Strand: Results of Nursing Manager Interviews
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The overall response rate was 42% (183 out of 431 surveys). We excluded (n= 18; 10%) surveys due to ≥80% missing values. Our final sample was 165.
Sample characteristics
All the interviewed nursing managers worked in one of the six participating nursing homes. We invited all nursing managers to participate in the study and had a participation rate of 100%. Interviews lasted an average of 14 min (min. 9; max. 40). Most of the interviewed nursing managers were female (89%) and between 50 and 59 years old (33%). More than half of the interview participants (55%) worked as unit managers. All interviewees worked day shifts and had worked between 11 and 15 years (3...
Nursing managers’ perceptions of nurses’ knowledge concerning hand hygiene
Our interviews revealed a broad range of nursing managers’ perceptions of nursing staff knowledge of hand hygiene practices in place to maintain and further this knowledge. For all nursing homes, it was highlighted that nurses have access to the nursing and hygiene standards at all times to independently further their knowledge. “First of all, we’ve got a binder with hygiene standards. It is also available in the residential areas, where staff can check things in case of uncertainty. If the m...
Perceptions of impacts on nurses’ hygiene training
In one nursing home, proactive planning and employee-oriented alignment of training were referred to as a well-functioning management system (quote 2, IP2). This notion was supported by another nursing manager who expressed a need for hygiene standards to be communicated frequently and actively practiced. “It still is the case, that we are a little blind, the standards are there, you could become better and say:Hey, look it could be even better! It [standards?] often goes down in daily routin...
Convergent results
When triangulating data sources, data converged around similar themes expressed by nurses and nursing managers. Both groups shared the perception that hand hygiene and infection prevention are important themes in daily work and recurring education with annual, mandatory hygiene training help to keep knowledge current. We also found shared views on the availability of hygiene equipment, hygiene standards and organisational procedures supporting a need for better understanding of infection prev...
Complementary results
It was relevant for nurses and managers that they themselves, their direct supervisors, and the licensed nurses comply with hygiene standards. Thus, most participants reported that during work they orient themselves towards what they learned in hygiene training courses. At the same time, however, referring to their own behaviour, some participants described wearing artificial nails or jewellery on their hands and arms. This inconsistency was often not noticed by study participants. Nursing ma...
Divergent results
We found divergent views of nurses and nursing managers concerning knowledge, perceived behaviour and perceived attitudes concerning hand hygiene. While most nurses gave correct answers to questions about hygiene practices such as the duration of hand rub, nursing managers were frequently in doubt about the level of understanding among staff. Furthermore, while nursing managers perceived nurses’ behaviour as adhering to standards most of the time there were pronounced gaps where organisationa...
- Judith Hammerschmidt, Tanja Manser
- 2019
Apr 30, 2023 · Patient experiences of nursing care, including hygiene care, are implemented in reciprocal relationships with patients and are established based on nurses' conscious responses to patients' individual needs (Wiedenbach, 1969). This interrelationship develops as nurses perceive patients' actions, which generates thoughts and feelings to make sense of those actions; nurses' responses prompt ...
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to support healthcare worker hand hygiene and germ transmission. AIM: The primary aim of this narrative review is to synthesize and summarize information about patients’ hand hygiene practice in acute care and long-term care settings. METHODS: Databases including MEDLINE, PubMed and Google Scholar were used to search for studies that included terms such as “patient hand hygiene and patient ...
