•HCWs demonstrated poor familiarity with the My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene.•The role of protective gloves in preventing HAI was overestimated by patients and HCWs.•The oldest patients and those with ...vocational education highly appreciated the use of gloves.•HCWs with lower seniority and students attached greater importance to the use of gloves.•Involving patients in creating a safe health care environment remains a huge challenge.
This study investigated differences in perceptions of hand hygiene and protective glove use among patients and health care workers (HCWs) in Poland. We conducted a survey using an original questionnaire among 462 respondents, including 173 (37.4%) patients and 289 (62.6%) HCWs; HCWs demonstrated poor familiarity with the My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene. The role of protective gloves in preventing health care–associated infection was overestimated by both patients and HCWs.
Among healthcare workers, nurses are the ones most exposed to patients since they are in contact 24h a day. Nurses lack of knowledge factors can lead to HAIs. Therefore, it’s important especially for ...nurses and nursing students to understand how to prevent HAIs. The aim of this study was to analyze the difference in knowledge levels of academic nursing students and professional nursing students in prevention. This study used descriptive design with comparative analysis. Total participant is 298 nursing students consisted of 196 academic nursing students and 102 professional nursing students were gathered with total sampling technique and statistic test used Mann Whitney. The results showed there aren’t a difference in knowledge level of the academic nursing students and professional nursing students, on the indicator of knowledge about HAIs (p= 0,619), on the indicator of knowledge about standard precautiom (p= 0,459), and there is a difference on the indicator of knowledge about hand hygiene (p= 0.001). Almost all respondents have good knowledge about HAIs. Knowledge of HAIs is very important to learn, with the aim that nursing students can avoid exposure to HAIs, and can apply HAIs prevention and control when practicing in healthcare settings
