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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention: Virtual classroom education for hand hygiene

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has spread rapidly in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Considering the recent outbreak of COVID-19, some precautionary measures have been announced, including campus class suspensions. Nursing campus courses have also been suspended, and there may be a...

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Autores principales: Ng, Yuet-Ming, Or, Pui Lai Peggy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32388117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102782
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Sumario:Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has spread rapidly in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Considering the recent outbreak of COVID-19, some precautionary measures have been announced, including campus class suspensions. Nursing campus courses have also been suspended, and there may be a learning gap between hand hygiene theory and clinical training for nursing students. A virtual classroom education approach may help address the learning gap by providing ongoing theoretical strengthening of hand hygiene during clinical nursing training. This editorial proposes a 3-step virtual classroom education approach to support nursing educators in online theoretical hand hygiene enhancement.