Only 21% of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when not to wash their hands in a clinical setting. These were students that were in the process of passing a lecture class that all medical students must pass before any bedside training or contact patients commences. So they were asked to take a seven scenario true/false assessment about washing their hands. Some of the scenarios were "before contact with a patient", "before preperation of intravenous fluids", "after removal of gloves", "after contact to the patients bed", and "after contact with vomit". Only 33% of the students got these answers right. So we should think about the future doctors of the world.
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Hopefully those medical students will have to take a hand washing class before coming a doctor! This is really gross and unsanitary.
ReplyDeleteEw! This is so gross! Reading this article really made me wonder that if medical students aren't washing their hands, then are our doctors not washing their hands either??
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