Behind the Science: Behind Hand Hygiene Adherence

One part of an infection preventionists’ duties is to make sure that the health care workers are following their facilities’ hand hygiene protocols. Yet, no matter the tools or tricks that have been offered and created by investigators and inventors, health care professionals still do not follow the hand hygiene guidelines 100% of the time. So Behind the Science asked health care workers off the record why they find themselves not following strict hand hygiene protocol to get an insight on the reasons.