The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized requirements in long-term care that call for at least a part-time infection preventionist and emphasizes Certification in Infection Prevention and Control as a key credential of expertise.
Even amid an ongoing storm of other respiratory infections, some argue that the widely predicted winter surge of COVID-19 in the United States will be blunted by vaccination, natural infection, and hybrid immunity in the population.
Many COVID-19 patients admitted for critical care may be periodically placed on their stomachs, a potentially life-saving course of treatment called “proning.” But proning makes intravenous lines difficult to access, drains patient oral secretions onto line sites, and increases the risk of some healthcare-associated infections.
Black women in healthcare face entrenched racism on a daily basis, from the death by a thousand cuts of microaggressions to the longstanding barriers to leadership positions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending treating dental unit waterlines and monitoring water quality after multiple outbreaks of nontuberculous Mycobacteria infections in children who received pulpotomies.
