Clinical skills: bed bathing and personal hygiene needs of patients.
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.
Pegram
Anne
A
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.
Bloomfield
Jacqueline
J
Jones
Anne
A
D001494:Baths / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene