Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
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Health care unions call for OSHA standard on infectious diseases
Squaring off with the nation's leading infection prevention groups, health care worker unions and associations are urging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop an infectious disease standard that would essentially regulate and enforce infection control programs in hospitals. -
Will Cal-OSHA airborne standard go national?
With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) opening preliminary rulemaking on a national infectious disease standard, infection preventionists pondering the end result of the effort may follow the old admonition, "look to California." -
Juries may view CDC guidelines as mandates
In the increasingly litigious arena of infection prevention, juries are interpreting recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as "mandated" standards of care. -
HCW flu shot rates rise as mandates spread
More health care workers received the flu vaccine last season than ever before, but that has not eased the pressure to boost immunization rates. -
It's official: You survived the pandemic
Like a hurricane downgraded to a tropical depression, H1N1 influenza A has lost its pandemic status and is now just another troublesome flu bug as infection preventionists prepare for the annual outbreak season. -
Isolation for life: The curse of 'Iraqibacter'
Infection preventionists looking for guidance on discontinuing contact isolation for patients with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-Ab) remain in a quandary. -
ip Newbe: Environmental cleaning versus hand hygiene
Many will have an opinion, yet the question in the headline cannot be definitively answered. I will not attempt to solve the debate, but let me try to shed a little light on it. -
Wisdom Teachers: Want to be a mentor? All you need is mentee
Editor's note: This is part one of our coverage of a presentation on mentoring by Carolyn E. Jackson, RN, MA, CIC, infection preventionist at SHW Hadley Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility in Washington, DC. Jackson spoke recently in New Orleans at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). For part two of this story, see the next installment of Wisdom Teachers.