A novel approach to improve hand hygiene compliance of student nurses

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Salmon, Sharon ^a   Wang, Xiao Bei ^a   Seetoh, Theresa ^b   Lee, Siu Yin ^a   Fisher, Dale A ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^c Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Compliance; Hand hygiene; Infection control; Nursing education; Nursing students

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; NURSING PRACTICE; NURSING STUDENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 84923883458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-2-16     Document Type: Article

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