A systematic review on hand hygiene knowledge and compliance in student nurses

ConclusionThis review demonstrated suboptimal knowledge and compliance to hand hygiene among student nurses. In addition, this review also highlighted the paucity of studies that examined individual and organizational factors, which influence nursing students hand hygiene knowledge and compliance. Implications for nursing and policyThe findings of this review emphasized the role of nurse educators in enhancing hand hygiene competence in nursing students. Implementation of empirically tested strategies such as utilizing multidimensional interventions, scenario‐based hand hygiene simulation activities and hand hygiene education programmes that would enhance nursing students’ hand hygiene knowledge and compliance is an asset. Hospital and nursing administrators should ensure continuous support and monitoring to guarantee that hand hygiene programmes are institutionalized in every healthcare setting by every healthcare worker.
Source: International Nursing Review - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Literature Review Source Type: research