Hospitals and other healthcare facilities can improve compliance and reduce incidences of preventable infections by retraining staff, reducing the patient to healthcare worker ratio, and setting up a monitoring system to monitor adherence to hand hygiene. The monitoring system should be used as an instrument to improve safety and not a tool to discipline workers. Workers should be encouraged to hold each other accountable. An award system may also be implemented where units or personnel with the highest rate of compliance are recognized. According to the Journal of Community Nursing 2014, "Although it is not possible to sterilize hands, the number of bacteria can be greatly reduced by good hand hygiene practice (P. 1)”. However, an increase in compliance to hand hygiene by healthcare workers, significantly help decrease the spread of
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities can improve compliance and reduce incidences of preventable infections by retraining staff, reducing the patient to healthcare worker ratio, and setting up a monitoring system to monitor adherence to hand hygiene. The monitoring system should be used as an instrument to improve safety and not a tool to discipline workers. Workers should be encouraged to hold each other accountable. An award system may also be implemented where units or personnel with the highest rate of compliance are recognized. According to the Journal of Community Nursing 2014, "Although it is not possible to sterilize hands, the number of bacteria can be greatly reduced by good hand hygiene practice (P. 1)”. However, an increase in compliance to hand hygiene by healthcare workers, significantly help decrease the spread of