BagBath: the value of simplistic care in the community.

Community nurses need to manage and embrace both the clinical and public health needs of their clients, which requires both ingenuity and improvisation. Although the community care environment is very different to hospital care, like all professionals, community nurses must live with the inevitability of change. The modern nurse must offer high-quality patient care and should be constantly striving for cost-effective methods of providing that care. In this product focus, the cost-effectiveness and infection control potential of the prevalent practice of "bed bathing" is compared with the new concept of BagBath (Westholme Ltd). BagBath is a quick-drying one-step bed bath product offered as an alternative to the bowl of water, soap, flannel and towel.