"Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands": the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Peters, Alexandra; Lotfinejad, Nasim; Guitart, Chloé Françoise; Simniceanu, Alice; Padoveze, Maria Clara; Borzykowski, Tcheun-How; Allegranzi, Benedetta; Pittet, Didier

doi:10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6

Scientific article

Letter

Open access

English

"Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands": the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

ContributorsPeters, Alexandra; Lotfinejad, Nasim; Guitart, Chloé Françoise; Simniceanu, Alice; Padoveze, Maria Clara; Borzykowski, Tcheun-How; Allegranzi, Benedetta; Pittet, Didier

Published inAntimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, vol. 9, no. 1, 54

Publication date2020

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.

Keywords

Hand hygiene
Healthcare-associated infection
Infection control
Infection prevention and control
Midwives
Nurses
World Health Organization

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research group

Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330)

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation - Impact of using a device providing individual feedback on healthcare workers hand hygiene behaviour: a cluster randomized clinical trial [32003B_163262]

Citation (ISO format)

PETERS, Alexandra et al. ‘Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands’: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. In: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020, vol. 9, n° 1, p. 54. doi: 10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6