Infection control liaison nurses The concept of training nursing home infection control liaison nurses (ICLNs) was introduced - at the time an innovative approach in the community - as it was decided ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Online courses are helping staff to develop the skills they need to tackle hospital-acquired infections, such as MRSA and C.difficile, and this expertise could also prove vital in a pandemic ...

A nurse by training, DuBose is part of a team of nine individuals that work to control the spread of infection in the hospital as well as providing information to colleagues, patients and families.

At the request of the CDC, two experienced Emory University Hospital nurses from their Serious Communicable Disease Unit have traveled to Dallas and spoke to healthcare workers today at Texas ...

Integrate comprehensive infection control training into nursing education programs to ensure that healthcare professionals are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills from the outset of ...

Researchers at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System say the use of escape room-style simulation games have proven valuable in training staff on infection control practices.

These nurses are expected to adhere to strict infection control practices in order to ensure that infection spread and disease is kept to a minimum, and yet nursing facilities often have very high ...