“Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign
Abstract In honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”. On May 5th of this year, for the annual celebration of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign, WHO will focus on the essential role that nurses an...
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| author | Alexandra Peters Nasim Lotfinejad Chloé Guitart Alice Simniceanu Maria Clara Padoveze Tcheun Borzykowski Benedetta Allegranzi Didier Pittet |
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| description | Abstract In honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”. On May 5th of this year, for the annual celebration of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign, WHO will focus on the essential role that nurses and midwives play in contributing to saving millions of lives per year. It is necessary to recognize the work and the immense responsibility that nurses and midwives carry since achieving Universal Health Coverage is highly reliant on them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35bb0ce41d3b4554a89fa63ce44441662022-12-22T03:54:25ZengBMCAntimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control2047-29942020-04-01911310.1186/s13756-020-00717-6“Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaignAlexandra Peters0Nasim Lotfinejad1Chloé Guitart2Alice Simniceanu3Maria Clara Padoveze4Tcheun Borzykowski5Benedetta Allegranzi6Didier Pittet7Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Research, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical SciencesInfection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of MedicineInfection Prevention and Control Hub and Antimicrobial Resistance Division, World Health OrganizationInfection Prevention and Control Hub, Integrated Health Services, UHC/Life Course, World Health OrganizationInfection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of MedicineInfection Prevention and Control Hub, Integrated Health Services, UHC/Life Course, World Health OrganizationInfection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of MedicineAbstract In honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”. On May 5th of this year, for the annual celebration of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign, WHO will focus on the essential role that nurses and midwives play in contributing to saving millions of lives per year. It is necessary to recognize the work and the immense responsibility that nurses and midwives carry since achieving Universal Health Coverage is highly reliant on them.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6Infection prevention and controlInfection controlHand hygieneNursesMidwivesWorld Health Organization |
| spellingShingle | Alexandra Peters Nasim Lotfinejad Chloé Guitart Alice Simniceanu Maria Clara Padoveze Tcheun Borzykowski Benedetta Allegranzi Didier Pittet “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Infection prevention and control Infection control Hand hygiene Nurses Midwives World Health Organization |
| title | “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign |
| title_full | “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign |
| title_fullStr | “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign |
| title_short | “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign |
| title_sort | nurses and midwives clean care is in your hands the 5th may 2020 world health organization save lives clean your hands campaign |
| topic | Infection prevention and control Infection control Hand hygiene Nurses Midwives World Health Organization |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6 |
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