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

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 midwive...

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Autores principales: Peters, Alexandra, Lotfinejad, Nasim, Guitart, Chloé, Simniceanu, Alice, Padoveze, Maria Clara, Borzykowski, Tcheun, Allegranzi, Benedetta, Pittet, Didier
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7168943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6
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author Peters, Alexandra
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Simniceanu, Alice
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Pittet, Didier
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description 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 pubmed-71689432020-04-23 “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 Simniceanu, Alice Padoveze, Maria Clara Borzykowski, Tcheun Allegranzi, Benedetta Pittet, Didier Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Commentary 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. BioMed Central 2020-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7168943/ /pubmed/32306988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Peters, Alexandra
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Simniceanu, Alice
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Allegranzi, Benedetta
Pittet, Didier
“Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7168943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6
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