Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

Victoria Pye, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. Background to learning Many nurses have been redeployed as part of the COVID-19 response – sometimes to several different wards across the trust in ...

Finally, a dental nurse textbook that focuses on the important topic of cross infection control rather than simply skimming the surface. Until the new version of the BDA advice sheet A12 Infection ...

Few of the many nonpharmacologic efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes during the pandemic were ...

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 ...

Some evidence shows hospital infection preventionists may be able to spend less time monitoring hand hygiene, according to a study published Dec. 19 in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes ... showed that infection-control procedures were still sorely lacking at many facilities.

Despite widespread exposure, residents in a Kentucky nursing home in 2023 did not contract mpox from an infected worker, ...

Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...

WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital is proud to announce that its Nursing Care Facility (NCF) has been awarded the prestigious Platinum level of the MEDALS Program designation by the West Virginia ...