Importance of Hand Hygiene in Hospital Based Environment

In order to understand why the question raised is so important in good nursing practice, practise based evidence will be searched for and presented. It is important to use knowledge and evidence to support practice, because this is what answers the questions of patients and practitioners in order to understand why exactly a certain order of doing things is used and why it is so important it is done properly and what the consequences are.” To achieve evidence-based nursing we need to value evidence-based research, be able to access research findings, have the skills to read research and apply the findings appropriately...” (Wilkinson, 1998)
To find the best evidence in knowledge and practice I have had a look in the book- Research methods for Nurses and caring professionals by Pamela Abbbott and Roger Sapsford to understand more how to look for evidence. For the article search I used Internurse trough Litsearch. I have found three relevant, up to date articles that I can use in my research in Internurse using the keywords hand washing and best practice and 2 articles using the keywords hand washing and hospital environment. …