How Good Are Hand Washing Practices?

1 September 1974

journal article
Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The American Journal of Nursing

Vol. 74 (9), 1676-1678
https://doi.org/10.1097/00000446-197409000-00036

Abstract

Observations of hand washing by nursing personnel in medical-surgical units show that this supposedly essential activity is not only infrequently performed but is not performed well.

Keywords

INFREQUENTLY
SURGICAL
SUPPOSEDLY
PERSONNEL
GOOD ARE HAND
HAND WASHING PRACTICES

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