C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance Eviden

C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance    C361 EBP Task 2 Hand Hygiene Compliance  Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research  EBP Task 2  A1. Healthcare Problem  Despite hand hygiene being recognized as the single most important step in the prevention of hospital acquired infections (HAI), compliance among hospital staff remains low.  This not only impacts the patient's morbidity and mortality it also places the financial burden of these infections on the health care institution.    A2. Significance of Problem  Poor hand hygiene compliance is a significant healthcare problem not only the United States but globally as well.  Hospital acquired infections have an incidence rate of up to 10% and increase the affected patients mortality by 10-40%.  Hand hygiene is an easy and cost-effective measure to prevent HAIs (Rodriguez et al., 2015).  Unfortunately, studies have shown that hand hygiene compliance is less than 50%