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Years ago, we tried to reach Ruth Carrico for a story and she came in from hospital curbside where she was running a drive-through flu shot campaign. The slogan? It wouldnt be the first time you killed a bug with your car.
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Having proposed federal "hospital report card" legislation while in the U.S. Senate that specifically cites heath care-associated infections (HAIs), President-elect Barack Obama comes into power this month with an unprecedented history of interest and advocacy about infection prevention.
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Infection preventionists have been drawn into the white-hot national spotlight on health care-associated infections in recent years, sometimes being accused by overzealous patient advocates as being as much a part of the problem as the solution.
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With the rise of a new Democratic administration and a continuing Congressional majority, there is an increasing perception that the health care system could be subject to new federal regulations.
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The quote above underscores the importance of infection preventionists building a bond with their clinical laboratory colleagues, an important outreach presumably made somewhat easier when the IP is the laboratorian.
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Donald Wright, MD, MPH, principal deputy assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is chairman of the newly formed HHS Steering Commission for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections.
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It began with an exchange between an infection preventionist and a clinical manager over a piece of equipment, a walker used to allow unassisted movement by patients.
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In an age when it's hard to keep track of the latest cell phone features, sharing infection prevention tools on the web would appear to be an idea whose time has long since come.
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Although enzyme-immunoassay (EIA) tests have replaced cytotoxin assays for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in most U.S. laboratories, the changing epidemiology of this disease suggests that an adjustment in diagnostic testing algorithms is needed.
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Having worked in infection prevention for more than three decades, Barbara Soule, RN, MPA, CIC, has come full circle.
