“…It describes the personal resources that serve as basis of the ability to complete complex clinical processes in compliance to hygiene standards. For this purpose, we use the term “hygiene competence”, which has already been occasionally used in the pertinent literature [19], [20], [21]), but so far without a differentiated, theoretically grounded underlying conception. In order to close this gap, we use a pedagogical-psychological understanding of competence as personal disposition [22] as our starting point (see the following section).…”