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COVID-19: a time to focus on nurses, hand hygiene and infection prevention and control
Author(s) -
Nasim Lotfinejad,
Alexandra Peters,
Didier Pittet
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of infection control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1996-9783
pISSN - 1816-6296
DOI - 10.3396/ijic.v16i1.001.20
Subject(s) - medicine , infection control , hygiene , outbreak , cornerstone , covid-19 , transmission (telecommunications) , health care , nursing , hand washing , disease control , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , environmental health , virology , pathology , economic growth , visual arts , engineering , art , electrical engineering , economics
With the global concern of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), infection prevention and control (IPC) is increasingly perceived as a major contributor to achieve a highly effective response to the outbreak and to prevent or limit transmission in healthcare settings. Improving health results is highly reliant on well-trained nurses especially during unexpected infectious disease outbreaks. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes hand hygiene, which is the cornerstone of infection prevention, through its annual global campaign on 5 May every year. The 2020 campaign targets nurses and midwives with the overall theme “Nurses and Midwives: CLEAN CARE is in YOUR HANDS”.

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