The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in ...

The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new ...

Changing nurses' perception of infection risk could improve compliance with infection control measures. It's often said that knowledge is power. But, a new study finds that when it comes to nurses' ...

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 ...

Every day Melanie DuBose begins her day by checking various databases used by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to see if any patients have been admitted with or developed any infections.

Clinicians have authored updated guidelines that provide recommendations for infection prevention and control (IPC) in ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in ...

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 ...

Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical Center surgical intensive care unit sustained a rate of zero central line-associated bloodstream infections for a 25-week period, mainly due to the ...

Yet while the science of microbiology advances, it often seems as if fundamental infection control battles are being lost. This article discusses whether better knowledge of microbiology would help ...

The workshop was organised as per the directives of National Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) by the National ...