A core aspect of Project Firstline — a national training collaborative for healthcare infection control led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — is content tailored specifically ...

New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

Nurses have always played an important role in infection prevention and control (IPC). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that fact. Evidence demonstrates that IPC is most effective when all ...

Finally, a dental nurse textbook that focuses on the important topic of cross infection control rather than simply skimming the surface. Until the new version of the BDA advice sheet A12 Infection ...

Surgery centers are placing a greater emphasis on infection prevention as the healthcare industry turns an eye to quality measures and their future ties to reimbursement. Jean Day, RN, CNOR, director ...

The National Nurses United (NNU) spoke out against recent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention action to finalize infection control guidelines that affect long-term care communities. The NNU ...

In the final report of a three-part series published last year about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing homes, the Office of the Inspector General found “monumental and ongoing staffing ...

Whether they’re there for a few days after a hospital stay, or living there long term, people in nursing homes are especially vulnerable to infections. From bacteria that have evolved to resist most ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...