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Suite Success: Following Updated Environmental Cleaning Guidelines for the Operating Room (OR)

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

April 13, 2020

Cleaning an environment where surgeries take place can be overwhelming, but is such an important task in order to promote...

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Microbial Magnets: Mobile Handheld Devices (and other popular items!) in the Operating Room

Author: Holly Montejano, MS, CIC, CPHQ

March 23, 2020

While patients are vulnerable to healthcare-associated infections (HAI) across the healthcare setting, patients preparing for and undergoing invasive procedures in...

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Why is C. difficile infection so challenging to control?

Author: George Kennedy, PhD

March 3, 2020

Clostridioides difficile, formerly Clostridium difficile, (C. diff.) is a bacterial pathogen of significant notoriety amongst healthcare professionals. C. diff. infection...

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There’s a New Coronavirus in Town: What You Need to Know

Author: Deva Rea, MPH, BSN, BS, RN, CIC

February 5, 2020

Coronaviruses are once again in the spotlight after a novel strain (2019-nCoV) emerged from Wuhan, China this past December, 2019....

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Five Trends in Infection Prevention for 2020

Author: Debra Hagberg MT (ASCP), CIC

January 15, 2020

Like the genome of a multi-drug resistant strain of bacteria, the field of infection prevention doesn’t stay static for long....

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Getting Shown the Light: A First-Person Perspective of Deploying a UV-C Disinfection Program

Author: Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC

January 10, 2020

At the beginning of 2016, I was facing a problem. My 653-bed adult and pediatric academic medical campus had received...

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Infection Prevention in Long-Term Care Facilities

Author: Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA

November 13, 2019

Each year, more than 4 million U.S. patients are admitted to or reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities with an...

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Impact of foodborne illness in a healthcare setting

Author: James Clayton

October 1, 2019

Despite well-established safe food handling practices, foodborne illness remains a significant source of morbidity and mortality in the United States1...

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A Unique Perspective on National Compliance Rates to the Central-Line Bundle

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

September 6, 2019

Every Infection Preventionist should know what The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) bundle checklist is to prevent CLABSIs...

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Clostridium difficile: Hiding in Plain Sight?

Author: Clinical Affairs PDI Healthcare

August 7, 2019

Healthcare workers are hypersensitive to the dreaded words, Clostridium difficile (C. diff.). Like a category 5 hurricane, its impact can...

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Maintaining the Microbiome: The Art of Balancing Colonization & Infection

Author: Deva Rea, MPH, BSN, BS, RN, CIC

July 8, 2019

Conventionally, we only think about the microbes on our skin and bodies when we become sick with an infection. Yet...

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Hand Hygiene Compliance in a Non-Compliant World

Author: Holly Montejano, MS, CIC, CPHQ

April 28, 2019

We all know that hand hygiene is a cornerstone of infection prevention and the “wash your hands” slogan is synonymous...

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