Literature Review and Critique



Literature Review and Research Critique

Article No. 1

The effect of washing and drying practices on skin barrier function D Voegeli - Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing, 2008

Comprehensive Critique

This paper exhibits about the evidence in the study of general hygiene, and purposefully relates the study with the intention to explore the role of skin damage caused by washing and drying methods and procedures that used in nursing. Nurses should be prepared with a view of their profession as a scientific discipline, who are more concerned about the fundamental good of humanity and are able to provide appropriate, quality and risk independent care to patients. Hand washing has recognized for over a century as an effective measure to prevent infections. Many outbreaks hospital due to contamination by the hands clearly reflect its importance. It also highlighted that it is important in surgical procedures. This experiment was undertaken by several people on the basis of the volunteering the experiment by 15 people. They were undergone with several types of washing and drying techniques to the volar aspect of the forearm. The people under study subjects underwent into 3 types of washing and drying techniques on each arm. This procedure was repeated twice, in every two hours of the time span. The study explores the evidence with the help of the method which can be assessed by the measuring trans-epidermal water loss, skin hydration, and skin pH and erythematic. They compare between washing the soaps and washing hands without soap that is just with water (Turkoglu, 1999).

The sample of 15 females was taken on the voluntary basis form the ages ranging between (18 to 65 years) along with some excluding criteria's.

A dramatic change has been observed in the experiment that there was a rise in TEWL for the techniques of washing as well as the drying of hand which was the result in the following digits (P < .05). It was observed that the TEWL was in the way of an increase when the sample washed their hands, with the soap rather than washing their hands with the clear water or without soap. It was observed with the naked eye. It was very evident because of the reason that with every wash of the hand with the soap, the TEWL was increasing along with the combination of drying the hands with the towel. In the case of washing the hands with soap and then drying the hands with the rubbing, the TEWL increase with the vast change in the level from 10.1 ± 0.5 to 12.3 ± 0.8 g/hm2 in the initial test, also rose in the second wash which was repeated after it to 13.1 ± 0.2 g/hm2 after the second wash (P < .01) (Kownatzki, 2003).

Similarly, the results showed the optimum results in both the cases; similar traces of results had been observed when the hands were washed with soap and water, but a little change in the drying procedure. This time the drying procedure was added ...