Problem identification Hand hygiene is practice that nurses are expected to comply to in a hospital setting. Compliance levels need to be established so that as establishment is made against the reasons that leading to lack of compliance. Research and day-to-day observations have revealed that infections related to bacteria can be freely transmitted when contaminated hands of a physician contact patients (Stanzak, 2006, p. 154). There is therefore great interest to establish the reasons that leads to trained nurses’ neglect or under compliance to hand hygiene practices to reduce infections to patients through contaminated hands. A point of interest in this study is related suspicions that lack of compliance could be related to workload of nurses. In addition, patients need only to battle with health conditions that led them to visit health care centers. Lack of decontamination among health care staff escalates the risk of infections. Neglect of hand hygiene or hand washing among nurse therefore calls for setting of a standard of observing hand hygiene among nurses. Hand hygiene non-compliance in not only observed among nurses, but is shockingly present among senior medical staff. An urgent need is required to bring down healthcare-associated infections within hospitals, with substantial attention on nurses. Importance of the problem Hand hygiene among nurses and other healthcare providers in a hospital center is important to the mitigation of infections. Infections are transmitted through contact with contaminated hands. According to Stanzak, (2006, p. 155.), there is a negligence of an alarming degree among nurses failure to comply with hand washing requirements. This problem is of dire importance to the reduction of healthcare related infections among patients. It is estimated that close to 10% of patients get infections related to health-care. Medical studies show that over 30% of these infections can be curbed. In spite of the fact that control can be achieved, difficulties still present challenges to having nurses comply with the hand hygiene policies (Rickard, N.A, 2004, p. 404-410). Nurses as health care workers need to be helped to achieve compliance with hand hygiene. The beneficiary is the patient when compliance is adhered to. This follows reduced infections. Project objective The main objective of the project is enhancing compliance of health care workers (nurses in particular) to hand hygiene in a healthcare environment. The achievement of high compliance levels reduces patient infections associated with negligence of hand hygiene observation by nurses. The compliance targets the 10% infections reduction by over 90% through introduction of an education program. Infections of communicable diseases has drawn attention of people globally, leading to media such as medical and nursing joint presses to reach the public on the subject (Currie, 2005, p. 200). Solution and description The solution will be given a comprehensive education program targeting largely the health workers in health centers. Besides, patients too need to be included in the education program. This approach is the best since it has the capability of speeding up the awareness of t