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Leadership requires professional collaboration between all members of the healthcare team. In order to be an effective leader you must collaborate with other members of your team. Making process changes within a facility takes the work of the whole team working together and not just one individual. During my Leadership Experience Hand Hygiene project I collaborated with my administrator and lead community health nurse regarding our current hand hygiene practices not being evidence-based. I provided the current hand hygiene evidence based research and the CDC hand hygiene guidelines for healthcare workers and compared these to how we are currently practicing within our facility. By collaborating with my administrator and lead nurse we were able to develop a plan to change our current process to meet CDC guidelines and evidence based research. We also collaborated with other employees’ within the facility to get their input on the situation and brainstorm ideas and ways to improve our practice.