A return to the basics; nurses’ practices and knowledge about interventional patient hygiene in critical care units

A return to the basics; nurses’ practices and knowledge about interventional patient hygiene in critical care units
El-Soussi, Azza H. et al.
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Article in Press. 

The Nursing profession is struggling to return to basic nursing care to maintain patients’ safety. “Interventional patient hygiene” (IPH) is a measurement model for reducing the bioburden of both the patient and health care worker, and its components are hand hygiene, oral care, skin care/antisepsis, and catheter site care.
Objectives: To identify the level of nurses’ practice and knowledge about interventional patient hygiene and identify barriers for implementing interventional patient hygiene in critical care units.