Posts Tagged ‘Environmental hygiene’
Evidence that environmental hygiene is important from Clean Hospitals
We discuss recent publications from Clean Hospitals and their significance for environmental hygiene. Find out the results of their systematic review, including how the impact of environmental hygiene interventions reduce healthcare-associated infections. What is Clean Hospitals? Clean Hospitals is a multi-professional group, bringing together experts from the industry and healthcare sector to collaborate on various workstreams…
Read MoreOur thoughts from Clean Hospitals Digital Day Two
The 2nd Clean Hospitals Digital Day was hosted on 7th December following on from the success of initial day earlier this year. Environmental decontamination, air treatment/purification, sustainability and their role in keeping hospitals clean, were all on the agenda with speakers from across the globe. Lessons Learnt from the REACH study – Prof. Brett Mitchell…
Read MoreThe role of the environmental hygiene nurse in preventing HCAI
An interesting article published recently in Infection Prevention in Practice illustrates the potential for a dedicated nursing role focussed on environmental hygiene to prevent HCAI. The study was performed in a 32-bed general ICU in Argentina. The intervention was the introduction of a novel post: the “Hospital environmental hygiene nurse”. This post was a full-time post dedicated to direct…
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