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June Fisher, MD, director of the Training for Development of Innovative Control Technologies (TDICT) Project in San Francisco, offers the following advise about establishing a sharps safety evaluation program.
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See one; do one; teach one isnt an adequate training plan for medical residents when it comes to sharps safety. Reducing needlesticks requires a sustained, comprehensive approach with ongoing opportunities for training, notes Annemarie Leyden, EdD, RN, chief of learning resources at the VA New York Harbor Healthcare (NYH) System, Brooklyn campus.
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Health care epidemiologists are reporting an increase in bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to the use of needleless mechanical valve devices that connect to central venous catheters. Originally intended to prevent needlesticks and protect health care workers from bloodborne infections, the devices now appear to be increasing the risk of BSIs in patients.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires that health care facilities adopt the most strongly recommended hand hygiene measures in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
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Surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations are putting an unprecedented emphasis on infection controls most frustrating problem hand washing.
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) updated its recommendations for influenza vaccination with these key points.
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Asking health care workers to sign a declination statement if they dont receive their annual influenza vaccine soon may become the standard of care. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an advisory panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, voted overwhelmingly to recommend the use of declination statements, along with other measures, to improve health care worker vaccination rates. They did not specify the wording of declinations.
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