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...Bryan Babcock Inc., March 2001 Introduction Nursing preventative care involves reducing the spread of infection in medical settings through appropriate and through hand washing, selection of appropriate gloves, and adherence to safety conditions regarding sharps. This discussion will examine those techniques and procedures. Hand washing Most of us have gotten rather nonchalant about hand washing. Yet a lack of hand washing is a very common way of spreading many diseases, such as: colds, flu, ear infections, strep throat, diarrhea, and other intestinal problems. How can we possibly wash our hands "wrong?" According Fogel (1995), to Marcia R. Silver, M.D., of the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brecksville, Ohio, vehemently explains, "They use dirty hands to turn on the faucets, then apply their clean wet hands to the spigots to turn them off, instead of drying the hands while the water still runs and using the paper...