HICprevent
This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
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Climate Change Could Increase Emerging Pathogens
'We are learning that changing Mother Earth has its consequences. The viral world is making its way across species barriers.'
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CMS Enacts Requirements for Infection Prevention in Nursing Homes
Infection preventionists have been fighting for these measures for years, but it took a 100-year pandemic and the death of some 60,000 nursing home residents to finally break the inertia.
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Endemic Monkeypox in the U.S.? We May Already Be There
The CDC also raises the possibility that monkeypox could establish an animal reservoir in the United States.
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CDC: In Light of Severe Monkeypox Infections, Test Patients for HIV
Co-infection with monkeypox and untreated HIV — particularly for those who have low CD4 counts — has produced devastating infections.
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Polio Outbreak Feared in New York
NY governor declares emergency prioritizing polio vaccine distribution and expanding those who can administer it to include EMTs, midwives and pharmacists.
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AOHP Conference: Violence in Healthcare an ‘Outrage’
A panel of experts urged employee health professionals to prioritize preventing workplace violence — an entrenched problem that has taken on a new immediacy with staff shortages.
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CDC Struggles to Regain Public Health Footing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conceded it mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic response and has begun an ambitious rebuild.
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Leading Nursing Group Has ‘Racial Reckoning’
'ANA purposefully, systemically, and systematically excluded Black nurses.'
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Toxic Co-Workers — A Threat to Patient Safety?
Ask yourself: If this behavior continues, could it be a patient safety issue?”
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CDC Paring Down Patient Isolation Guidelines
A major focus of the revision will be on delineating the blurred line between droplet and airborne precautions, which has been the subject of some confusion and controversy during the pandemic.