Leadership_Experience_Task1_C493 2021

1. Hand Hygiene a. The current issue on my unit, and an issue that has been present since last year, is the lack of hand hygiene. This is extremely pertinent as hand hygiene is essential to providing adequate patient care. According to the CDC, about 1 in 25 patients acquires a health care- associated infection (HAI) due to poor hand hygiene during their hospital care, resulting in up to 722,000 infections a year. Of these, 75,000 patients die of their infections (Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Set...