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

The CDC and the American Nurses Association jointly launched a nursing education network for infection control and prevention. The Nursing Infection Control Education Network consists of 20 specialty ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best way to show the federal government takes seriously the importance of infection control in nursing homes, especially in the wake of the pandemic, is to require a full-time specialist. That’s ...

Delivering on their commitment to provide healthcare workers with better learning methodologies, Emory University’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab (HHFL), Relias, and Inception XR are partnering to ...

A study in the United States has shown that attitudes among community nurses are important for their compliance with infection control practices. The study, by researchers at The University of ...

During the pandemic, one very clear tragedy stood out: Approximately 200,000 residents and staff died from COVID-19 in nursing homes. However, what many people don’t realize is that even before the ...

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 workshop was organised as per the directives of National Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delh BJ Medical College (BJMC) and ...