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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510144

To What Extent the Hand Hygiene among Health Care Workers Become the Core of Best Practice in the COVID-19 Era?

Sultan Mohammed Al Mutairi, MPH, Azzam Alotaibi, PhD, Mostafa Kofi, PhD, Anas Alsuraimi, MD and Amen Bawazir, PhD

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: June 13, 2020

In the Era of COVID-19 outbreak, hand hygiene become a particularly critical for frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) who are overstretched and for whom this key routine task must be easy to complete and effective to prevent Healthcare- associated infections (HAIs). Therefore, this current study aims to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of hand hygiene among the HCWs and the potential factors influencing hand hygiene (HH) compliance according to the hand hygiene protocols at pr...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510142

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine with Osteoarthritis Patients

Sefika Dilek GUVEN and Ayla UNSAL

Article Type: Original Research | First Published: April 06, 2020

The treatment of Osteoarthritis (OA) includes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic methods. In getting no response to traditional medical treatment it causes the use of effective and confident treatment of OA and as a result patients tend to use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). This study which is a descriptive type has been done on patients with OA in case of defining the use of CAM. This study has been done on patients who applied to physical therapy polyclinics. The sample of the ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510143

Risk for Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) among Cancer Patients from a Nursing Perspective

Nada Lukkahatai, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, Aliki Argiropoulos, BSN, RN, OCN and Leorey N Saligan, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN

Article Type: Commentary | First Published: April 09, 2020

With this existing pandemic, it is critical to synthesize information that will be useful to frontline health care providers, particularly our nurses who are taking care of vulnerable populations. This commentary describes the common manifestations of COVID-19 infection, current management based on recent publications, hoping to equip nurses and other healthcare providers, especially those taking care of cancer patients, with some basic information about the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 infect...

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