C361 Task 2

A1. Healthcare Problem Proper hand hygiene is the simplest and most cost-effective way to reduce or prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAI). Not only is it essential for healthcare workers (HCW) to perform proper and frequent hand hygiene, but recent studies suggest that patient hand hygiene may be important in preventing the spread of infection from patient to healthcare worker and from patient to patientIt is paradoxical that hand hygiene practice often decreases considerably when patients are admitted to a hospital or long-term-care facility. Knighton et al. (2016) A2. Significance of the Problem Each year health care-associated infections affect more than 2 million Americans. Pathogens on the hands of both health care workers and patients...