Infection Control

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) on Wednesday disclosed a new IP Staffing Calculator that  aims to help infection prevention and control specialists gauge...

The Department of Health and Human Services released a report in January of this year showing that more than 1,000 long-term care facilities in the United States had COVID-19 infection rates of 75% or...

Some healthcare organizations, including long-term care communities, are taking infection control to a whole new level. 

Healthcare workers who had the highest risk for being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 also were most likely to be noncompliant with infection prevention measures, according to a new report. 

Believe it or not, medical scrubs aren’t just uniforms for work. The garments are just one aspect of personal protective equipment, but they can give healthcare workers an extra layer of protection —...

A new study found that using the antiseptic chlorhexidine and nasal iodine solution on nursing home residents worked to lower the risk of residents being transferred to hospitals for infection better compared...

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 says...

Letting healthcare workers put on gloves without requiring them to wash their hands first helped employees comply with expected  infection prevention strategies better than requiring them to wash their...

Infection prevention and control measures during the pandemic did their job to lower many healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and respiratory viral infections (RVIs).

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors...