Nurses have reflected on the “critical importance” of good hand hygiene for safe and effective nursing care and have recognised the need to lead the way in this practice and stamp out unnecessary ...

ATLANTA, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific and leading innovator of advanced dispensing and smart monitoring solutions, has released the results of its latest hand ...

Practising hand hygiene at the right times to prevent healthcare-associated infections is one of the most important patient care practices health professionals can undertake. However, changing ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...

A multifaceted hand hygiene intervention lowered mortality and antibiotic prescriptions in nursing homes, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers ...

REGINA – Hand washing is an important part of any health care workers day, but some health care professionals are letting this practice fall by the wayside. The Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region ...

Thirty-eight percent of special nursing homes that responded to a survey admitted they failed to instruct their staff to wash and sterilize their hands every time they changed patients' diapers, a ...

And you thought you mastered hand-washing as a kid. More than 50 percent of illness can be prevented with proper hand washing, according to the CDC. STOCK4B/Getty Images — -- intro: Everyone ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. -- New research underscores GP PRO's commitment to supporting healthcare infection prevention goals as part of APIC's ...