DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i02.024

Pages: 418-421

The aim of this study was to assess the awareness and knowledge of hand hygiene practices among healthcare workers in a tertiary care hospital. The present study was conducted to assess the knowledge of the five moments of hand hygiene guideline issued by world health organisation. Healthcare workers including doctors and nurses were given a questionnaire during daily patient visit on random basis. The data was collected and analysis was done using SPSS software version 18. A total of 100 doctors and nurses were questioned during the period of observation. Out of 100, 20 were doctors and 80 were nurses. Among the nursing staff, 30 nurses have no knowledge of moments of hand hygiene so they were excluded from present study. All doctors had knowledge of hand hygiene moments and most of them used alcoholic hand rub. Most of nurses used soap and water compared to waterlessalcohol-based hand rub. Knowledge of hand hygiene practice is low among nursing staff compared to doctors. Use of alcohol-based disinfectant was found to be very low among nursing staff compared to soap and water.