Sentences with phrase «poor hand hygiene»

While there can be barriers to optimal hand hygiene in healthcare settings, poor hand hygiene undermines care and threatens patient safety.»

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Poor hygiene, such as skipping hand - washing before and after sports, can also contribute to MRSA, as can injuries that allow the bacteria to enter the skin.

It can be caused by anything from stress and fatigue, to pressure on the breast from a bra that's too tight, missed feedings, or poor hand or breast pump hygiene, according to The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

It is well known that healthcare workers» compliance with hand hygiene is poor, with average compliance at 25 - 40 % in many studies.

Sustained improvements in hand - hygiene are key to the World Health Organisation's SAVES LIVES strategy to reduce health - care associated infection, yet hand - hygiene compliance amongst healthcare workers remains poor, with levels of 25 - 40 % being common.

For one, if you plan to travel to countries with poor sanitation, you'll want to make sure you practice good hygiene, including washing your hands after bathroom trips, drinking purified water, and avoiding uncooked foods — specifically meat from pigs, boar, and deer.

A lady, on the other hand, someone you want to start a relationship with, may not take the poor hygiene lightly.

I vividly remember, during my own youth, my mother and father talking at the kitchen table and discarding wannabe babysitters for such reasons as lack of intelligence, possible drinking problem, ugliness and poor hygiene, but all that effort still didn't stop one hired hand from encouraging me to jump as far as I could off the back of the couch.

I believe, on the other hand, it contributes to poor tank hygiene, since out of sight is out of mind.

-LSB-...] Other causes included poor personal hygiene, particularly people failing to wash their hands after using the toilet.»