Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infection

: Prevention of nosocomial infections is an important activity in all hospitals carried out by the Infection Control Committee. The major goal of this activity is to protect patients, healthcare workers, visitors, and others in the healthcare environment from nosocomial infection. Nurses have an important role to reduce the transmission of nosocomial pathogens. Contact transmission is the most frequent mode of transmission in the hospital. This article describes clinical classification of skin bacteria, the evidence for hand transmission of microbial pathogens during patient care, persistence of clinically relevant on dry inanimate surface, comparison of hand washing agent and alcohol-compound hand rubs. Hand hygiene is considered the most important measure for nosocomial infection.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  COVID-19

• Publication date

  2020-08-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1142/9789811222078_0025
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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