Kaiser Permanente, in its Nursing Pathways Infection Prevention Plus Measures Toolkit, provides links to two free, online videos focusing on hand hygiene. The first video, “Hands,” was produced by ...

IPRO, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for New York state, offers three free hand hygiene videos on the website of the Greater New York Hospital Association. The videos, titled “Kick Me,” ...

Tuesday, Oct. 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Hand washing, while essential to infection control and prevention, suffers from perennially low compliance rates, sometimes as low as 40 percent in ...

When healthcare professionals are aware they’re being observed, they’re significantly more likely to comply with hand hygiene guidelines, according to a study presented at the 43rd Annual Conference ...