Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP)
Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
Our first blog of 2021 is by Nkwan Jacob Gobte, of Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services. Jacob is the Research Coordinator of a hand hygiene study being led by the SHIP team in Cameroon. Since the 18th century, hand hygiene has been widely accepted as the main strategy to prevent infections in healthcare facilities. Hand…
In this blog we share tips from Alicia Ware (SHIP PhD Student) on how to carry out public engagement activities to communicate research. We also showcase some of the SHIP team’s past public engagement activities. Public engagement can seem like a daunting thing for many. How do you get up in front of school children,…
This year the Glasgow Science Festival (GSF) is back and taking place ‘on the sofa’. The digital programme commenced on the 9th of September 2020 and is available until the 9th of November 2020, while live events were broadcasted in the past week. The SHIP team has contributed to this year’s programme by delivering an…
Tuesday 5th May 2020- World Hand Hygiene Day, is the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual global call to action for health workers. This year’s message is “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. Nurses and Midwives, clean care is in your hands” and there has never been a better time to promote this message and to celebrate…
When a teacher from Barsail primary school in Erskine asked the SHIP Research Group to help with their health week we jumped at the chance. She had heard about the Guinness World Record breaking attempt that the SHIP research group had been involved in two years ago, when student nurses taught the world’s largest simultaneous…
If Content is King then Context is Queen In April 2016 a study completed by SHIP (Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention) researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) made the headlines as it produced the first evidence, in a randomised controlled trial (RCT), that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 6-step hand hygiene guidance is more effective…
Hi everyone, Each year the World Health Organisation’s “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaign aims to highlight the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. Hand hygiene is the entrance door for reducing health care-associated infections and so on Thursday 5th May the…
After the huge success of last year’s world record, it was decided that we should try for another record, still within the theme of hand hygiene since this is the most effective way of reducing the risk of infection in healthcare and the transmission of infection in the wider community. All student nurses are…
Well, Tuesday was the World Health Organisations’s global day for action on hand hygiene in health care and we got very involved here at Glasgow Caledonian University. We had a display in the main foyer of the health building on campus to showcase the research we have carried out in this field and to teach…
On the 22nd November last year, Friends of Elder Park, members of staff from the SHIP research group, children involved in the world record, and lots of volunteers planted daffodil bulbs and wild flowers (kindly provided by Glasgow City Council Parks department) in Elder Park as part of a project for Glasgow’s Green Year 2015.…