Hand Hygiene in Focus
Hand hygiene is a vital part of any infection control practice. Nurses are constantly disinfecting their hands hundreds, if not thousands of times per day (or at least they should be)
but this mentality has spread to the greater public, with antibacterial soaps becoming more readily available, and to some, a necessity.
You would expect this to be good news, but it's not. Recently emerging evidence has shown that this over-use of antibacterial soaps outside of the healthcare setting may actually be doing more damage…