Long-term care facility residents in Warsaw, Poland, showed poor oral health and had a median number of missing teeth ranging ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

Improving compliance with hand hygiene practices has been a challenge in all healthcare facilities including the long-term care (LTC) setting. One of the most common modes of transmission of pathogens ...

What's the best way to improve oral hygiene in nursing home residents? And what's the answer to the age-old question of whether manual or electronic toothbrushes should be used? Researchers ...

Nurses have reflected on the “critical importance” of good hand hygiene for safe and effective nursing care and have recognised the need to lead the way in this practice and stamp out unnecessary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women claim to have a better understanding of how to care for their hygiene than men (57% vs. 42%), according to new research. A ...

Nursing students at Montana Tech's Sherry Lesar School of Nursing and the Student Nurses Association (SNA) are organizing a ...

People with dementia may soon have improved oral hygiene because of a National Institutes of Health $1.4 million, four-year grant to Rita A. Jablonski, assistant professor of nursing, Penn State.