With hand washing, not only is it helping the hospital prevent many infections and such but it is also helping healthcare workers as well. Proper hand washing from both health care workers and patients (even if it’s required to wash the patient’s hands for them) can help prevent hospital acquired infections and help stop the spread of diseases and sickness. While not a major improvement from the study, it conducted from the nurses’ hand washing that the number of nurses’ washing their hands going into and coming out of the patient’s room had increased. With that being said, many if not most of the hospital acquired infections had certainly decreased with the involvement of hand washing. This also included the “patient hand hygiene protocol”
