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Wedding rings and hospital-acquired infection
1Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit, Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.
Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
|July 16, 1997
Abstract:
Some theatre nurses are reluctant to remove their wedding rings when scrubbing up. This article reviews the literature and concludes that keeping rings on may put the patient at risk of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infection.