Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...

A Nashville-area nursing home at the center of one of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks in Tennessee has a one-star health rating and a history of infection control issues, including repeat ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

GP PRO’s latest survey, “Understanding the Hands that Care for Others,” shares the hand hygiene experiences of 100 nurses working in acute and long-term care/skilled nursing facilities. New research ...

City nursing homes ravaged by the coronavirus were warned about disturbing patterns of unsanitary behavior long before the deadly outbreak, The Post has found. The state Health Department cited more ...

On April 9 at PruittHealth-Carolina Point, a nursing home on the Orange-Durham border, an aide walked from room to room, passing out lunch trays. In between, a state inspector observed, the aide did ...

Health system is focusing on new technology and new innovations to improve patient safety, quality director says. Although observations showed a 90% hand hygiene compliance across the health system ...

Hand-washing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. Since it began collecting ...

WTAM-AM: Shanina Knighton, an instructor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, reminded listeners that the best defense against coronavirus, or any disease, is simple hand washing.

Objectives: Health professional burnout has been associated with suboptimal care and reduced patient safety. However, the extent to which burnout influences hand hygiene compliance among health ...

Yes, washing your hands provides excellent protection against coronavirus (and other pathogens). But you do need to scrub with soap for 20 seconds to remove those pathogens. That's what the Centers ...

ATLANTA, GA / ACCESS Newswire / October 28, 2025 / GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific and leading innovator of advanced dispensing and smart monitoring solutions, has released the results of its ...