Three Nurses Washing Hands at Hospital Sink

Why Effective Hand Hygiene Requires Soap and Water, As Well As Hand Sanitizer

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study about drug-resistant germs (CDC, 2019) continuing to pose a threat to patient safety renewed the Vitalacy team’s attention to a 2018 study specifically related to hand hygiene. “Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols” (Pidot et al., 2018) presents data showing that infections caused …

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