Picture of nurse with red nails sends wrong message on hygiene
Mark Wheatley Senior lecturer, School of health and social care, Teesside University
I was puzzled by the photograph used to illustrate Dinah Gould’s article on hand hygiene (Student life January 29). It shows a nurse with bright red painted fingernails holding a patient’s hand.
Nursing Standard.
28, 24, 35-35.
doi: 10.7748/ns2014.02.28.24.35.s45
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