HICprevent
This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
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Climate Change Could Increase Emerging Pathogens
Read More about 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
Read More about CMS Enacts Requirements for Infection Prevention in Nursing HomesInfection 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
Read More about Endemic Monkeypox in the U.S.? We May Already Be ThereThe 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
Read More about CDC: In Light of Severe Monkeypox Infections, Test Patients for HIVCo-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
Read More about Polio Outbreak Feared in New YorkNY 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’
Read More about 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
Read More about CDC Struggles to Regain Public Health FootingThe 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’
Read More about 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?
Read More about 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
Read More about CDC Paring Down Patient Isolation GuidelinesA 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.