A joint report from the London-based Royal College of Nursing and the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals has determined the relationships between nursing and cleaning staff have an ...

Researchers conducted the study at two academic acute care hospitals, two community hospitals and an academic pediatric and women’s hospital. They examined the effect of a five-module educational ...

WAILUKU, Hawaii (KHON2) — It has been a week since nearly 500 health workers went on strike at Maui Health to demand better pay. A hospital nurse said they are starting to feel the impacts, claiming ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The host of chemicals in the cleaning agents used in hospitals may present a health hazard to staff, and potentially patients, a pilot study suggests. Recent studies have ...

Microbial contamination remained on high-touch hospital surfaces even when staff complied with cleaning protocols, the researchers found. The team took samples from 400 surfaces at the Central Texas ...

Hospital-acquired infections are infections patients didn't have when they were admitted to hospital. The most common include wound infections after surgery, urinary tract infections and pneumonia.