As a nursing student, I learned to shave patients in preparation for surgery

As a nursing student, I learned to shave patients in preparation for surgery

As a nursing student, I learned to shave patients in preparation for surgery; as a public health nurse, I taught mothers to clean their infants’ umbilical cords with alcohol and showed patients newly diagnosed with diabetes how to wipe the skin with alcohol before injecting insulin.

Since then, high-quality research has shown that pre-operative shaving increases rather than decreases post-operative infections (Kjonniksen et al. 2002), that cleaning umbilical cords with sterile water shortens the…

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