Auditing the Compliance of Nursing Staff on Hand Washing Technique during (COVID- 19) Pandemic | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 56, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2020, Page 958-964 PDF (174.1 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.200853 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Hanaa Mohamed Ahmed 
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| Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Hand washing is a corner stone of infection control and the third precaution mentioned alongside wearing a mask and staying six feet apart for the last year as the coronavirus pandemic. Aim: auditing the compliance of nursing staff on hand washing technique during Covid - 19 Pandemic. Subject: Nursing staff who worked with at isolation departments. Design: A cross sectional descriptive research design. Setting: The study was conducted in El- Rajhy Liver Hospital, Neurological Hospital, Main hospital (chest department) and urology Hospital at Assiut University Hospitals. Tools: Tool I: Personal data of nursing staff. Tool II: Observation checklist for nursing staff about the proper technique of hand washing. Results: the highest percentage of the studied subject was compliance with hand washing at September and October and there was negative statistically significant correlation between compliance and not compliance items with hand washing among nursing staff. Conclusion: Hand washing compliance rates have increased significantly in last month only at Al Rajhy Liver Hospital and Neurological Hospitals where there has been an increase in the number of coronavirus cases among nursing staff. Recommendations: There must be announced strategies in hospitals for all nursing staff to note the extent of nurses' commitment to washing hands. Penalties are also applied to those do not adhere to hand washing. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Compliance to hand washing technique; COVID 19; Nursing Staff | ||||
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