Planning the Intervention/Planning the Study of the Intervention<br>Before implementation of the patient hand-washing project, staff completed an anonymous 6-question survey (Table 1).3 Permission was granted to use a modified survey from the article, “Hand Hygiene: What About Our Patients?”3 Unit staff were asked to complete the questionnaire and return it within 1 week. We received<br>a total of 33 staff responses. Upon discharge, patients also completed a 6-question survey (Table 2) before the intervention, as well as 1, 2, and 3 months after implementation to track progress of program participa- tion. It was hypothesized that the unit results would mir- ror the results of Burnett et al,3 where the staff aimed on the positive side of the scale and patients had the major- ity of rarely or never responses when asked if they were encouraged to wash their hands.3 Patient surveys were
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