title: Clinical skills: bed bathing and personal hygiene needs of patients.
abstract: The maintenance of personal hygiene is essential for a patient's health and well-being. Nurses play a key role in ensuring that the individual hygiene needs of patients are met. In this article the process of bed-bathing a patient is described.
authors.affiliation: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pegram
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bloomfield
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D001494:Baths / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene