Review of literature: Knowledge and practice of standard precautions by nursing student and teaching techniques used in training.

Introduction: Standard precautions (SP) help to combat health care-associated infections. It is of paramount importance that they be taught during nursing studies. The objective of this review of the literature was to determine the level of knowledge and practice of SP and hand hygiene (HH) of nursing students (NSs) and to identify the different pedagogical hygiene techniques applied in nursing training.