Survey of hand hygiene knowledge and needs for hand hygiene facilities among nurses

VernacularTitle:护理人员手卫生知识和对手卫生设施需求调查
Author: Xian XIA ¹ ; Zhi-Gang WANG ; Xiao ZHUO ; Lin-Ke FAN ; Hai-Feng LI
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1. 100700,北京军区总医院感染控制科
Keywords: Hand hygiene; Knowledge; Facilities; Nurse
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2010;16(19):2253-2255
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the hand hygiene knowledge and needs for hand hygiene facilities among nurses, and to provide evidence for implementing valid intervention to increase hand hygiene compliance (HHC). Methods Self-designed questionnaire was used to survey knowledge of hand hygiene, HHC selfevaluation, and needs for hand hygiene facilities. Results 85.8% of the objects exhibited good command of the standard method of hand-washing, while 31.9% of which were not familiar with the time of hand-washing. There was a low command rate of the indications of antiseptic hand-rubbing after hand-washing. 22.2% of the objects reported over 50 times of hand hygiene behavior per day. Top causes of low HHC rates were listed as "harm of the hand antiseptic agent to the skin", "heavy workload" and "insufficient hand hygiene facilities". Automatic tap and antiseptic tissue were the most needed hand hygiene facilities. Conclusions Comprehensive measures should be adopted and hand hygiene facilities should be provided in order to increase HHC.