How does this relate to us? As future cardiovascular technicians, we will encounter patients by mean of invasive and/or non-invasive procedures with severe heart conditions requiring heart transplant. Based on the statistics present previously, one of the patient will acquired an infections due to poor hand hygiene compliance. The reason is not due to limited handwashing station, time need to wash hand, or poor awareness of hospital protocols. Researcher found that when “high ranking person [physician or nurses] in the room did not perform hand hygiene, other health care workers [technician or aides] were significantly less likely to …show more content…
All of which is encounter daily in a hospital setting, therefore hand hygiene is crucial in the first step to prevent the spread of infection. Let change the negative trend of hand hygiene found in Ms. Lankford’s research study by perform appropriate hand hygiene in the presence of physicians, nurses, supervisors, managers, and peers not for recognition but because it is the right thing to