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See Latest ArticlesPerceptions, attitudes, and behavior towards patient hand hygiene
American Journal of Infection Control, 09/29/09
Burnett E – Despite epidemiologic evidence to suggest that hand hygiene is an important part of preventing health care–associated infection, patients are not provided the opportunity to do so. Human behavior is extremely complex and is the consequence of multiple interdependent influences from biology, environment, education, and culture. Major beliefs and barriers that alter nurses' preexisting behavior toward patient hand hygiene must be acknowledged.
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