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Date Posted: 21:26:28 11/03/99 Wed
Author: nailsplash
Author Host/IP: ip-91-141.ord.primenet.com / 206.165.91.141
Subject: Nails and nurses

I'm sure most of you should have seen this already in my newsletter... but just in case I figured I should post here too! (If you don't get my newsletter, then subscribe already! It comes out once a week and it's FREE.... send a blank email to nailsplashnews-subscribe@listbot.com OR go to this link <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://nailsplashnews.listbot.com/">http://nailsplashnews.listbot.com/</a> )

I've already received many fabulous responses that I will compile and post to the next newsletter; any one with additonal comments to add please post here or forward to me at nailsplashnews-owner@listbot.com .

This "Fake Fingernails and Nurses" story is in todays Washington Post. I also saw it in 2 other national papers (online), so I'm sure it's in several other papers as well. Follow this link here to see that story: <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/02/021l-110299-idx.html">http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/02/021l-110299-idx.html</a> , and I also posted it below.

Last I had heard on this subject, most medical experts had not come to any conclusions either way on the subject of nails, germs, and nurses.... I'm not sure what to make of it! And why would germs "like" acrylic so much and be resistant to handwashing? A lot of unanswered questions............

Anybody have any good responses/answers to "combat" this with, as I'm sure we'll being hearing more about this subject this week from clients and maby even TV media.... :-(
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Washington Post, Tuesday, November 2, 1999; In "the Cutting Edge" section of the paper, pagz Z05

STUDY CHALLENGES NURSES WITH FAKE FINGERNAILS

It seems there's another threat to hospitalized patients besides those germy stethoscopes and doctors who don't wash their hands between patients: nurses and other health care workers who wear artificial fingernails.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and the VA Medical Center in Ann Arbor found that nurses sporting those fake accoutrements were more likely to harbor potentially harmful bacteria and yeast on their nails than those with natural fingernails.

The research team, led by S.A. McNeil, compared 21 nurses who wore fake nails with 20 who did not. They found that 73 percent of nurses with artificial nails tested positive for the presence of various bacteria including staphylococcus aureus, a common cause of hospital-acquired infection, compared with 32 percent of nurses who did not wear artificial nurses.

After both groups washed their hands with an antibacterial soap or a waterless, alcohol-based gel cleaner, the fake nail wearers still were considerably more likely to retain bacteria. Sixty-eight percent of nurses who wore fake nails continued to harbor bacteria on their hands, compared to 26 percent of nurses who did not wear them.

The study was presented last month at the annual meeting of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

--Sandra G. Boodman

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