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What Do the National Patient Safety Goals Say About Hand Hygiene?

The Joint Commission’s (JC) National Patient Safety Goals, what are effective from 2018 January are available now. What does the document say about hand hygiene? Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged compliance monitoring, hand cleaning, hand hygiene, hand hygiene guideline, infection prevention, Joint Commission, National Patient Safety Goals, NPSG, patient safety, qualitycheck

U.S. hospitals don’t follow infection prevention rules

Researchers from the Columbia University School of Nursing found that approximately one in 10 hospitals lack checklists to prevent bloodstream infections, and one in 4 lack checklists to help avoid pneumonia in ventilator patients. Even worse, these checklists are followed only about half of the time. Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged infection prevention

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