Health system is focusing on new technology and new innovations to improve patient safety, quality director says. Although observations showed a 90% hand hygiene compliance across the health system ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...

If there is one group of clinicians that is particularly pivotal to the success of any quality improvement initiatives — including though regarding hand hygiene compliance — it’s the nurses who work ...

A study in the American Journal of Infection Control found nurses’ hand hygiene compliance rate in Brazil between June 2006 to August 2009 was 77.9 percent, compared with 44.6 percent among physicians ...

World Hand Hygiene Day will be celebrated on 5 May 2020. This year’s campaign theme, “SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands”, aligns with the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The campaign aims ...

Overworked. Undervalued. Less encounters that bring joy. This is a glimpse at what nurses are up against in today's healthcare landscape. With 43 percent of respondents to a recent RNnetwork nurse ...