Relationship of hand-hygiene compliance score with nurse’s engagement in intensive care unit

Background: Infectious diseases are still the main cause of the high rate of morbidity and mortality in the world. Hand-hygiene behavior is one factor that has a major influence on prevention of nosocomial infections (INOS) in the hospital. Objective: the aim of this research is to find the correlation of nurse engagement with the level of compliance of hand-hygiene ICU nurse activity in Surabaya Islamic Hospital. Method: This research is a quantitative analytic research and use descriptive design with cross sectional research method. The sampling technique used in this research is total sampling technique that is taking data of all nurses who are in ICU. Result: The results of this study indicate that nurse engagement has a correlation with the compliance of nurses in implementing hand-hygiene.