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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First came the federal requirement that every nursing home must have an infection control preventionist on staff. Now, a government watchdog says that minimum training requirements should be ...

'Now is not the time to remove protections from COVID-19,' NNU president says in a letter to the CDC. National Nurses United (NNU) is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ...

Many of nursing homes’ infection prevention and control weaknesses initially exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic still demand additional support and resources, researchers warn in a new JAMDA study. The ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

Members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) voted Friday to defend what some have called weak standards of infection control for healthcare settings, agreeing ...

Hospitals with the highest work-environment scores were less likely to have above-average Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) rates. Health care organizations have tried a wide range of ...

BJ Medical College (BJMC) and Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) in Pune on October 15 conducted a training workshop “Breaking the Chain – Effective Infection Control Practices” for government nurses to ...