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One thing that will haunt me and many health care personnel in both acute care and LTCFs forever is that so many people died without a family member at their bedside. I reached out to people in different disciplines, settings, and states. I wanted to know what lessons we’ve learned from the carnage caused by […]
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Author: Pamela Bryant, MS Health Communications Specialist, CDC To do: Biopsy MRI Port-a-Cath Chemotherapy Genetic Testing Lumpectomy Radiation The above list is not exactly the type of to-do list I ever thought I’d be faced with. As you can imagine,…
Author: Michele E. Gaguski MSN RN AOCN CHPN APN-C As an oncology nurse, I often see anxiety and fear in the eyes of my patients as I teach them what to expect from their first round of chemotherapy. Most of the time, patients’ first questions are…
Author: Alice Guh, M.D., M.P.H. Medical Officer, CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion When you are battling cancer, the last thing you want to get is an infection. This is one of the reasons why I am involved in Preventing Infections …
Author – Andrew Wiese, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellow, Tennessee Department of Health This week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR…
Author: Michael Bell, MD, Associate Director for Infection Control at CDC′s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. CDC released a report today detailing two outbreaks that occurred when healthcare providers failed to follow basic injection safety …
Author – Joseph Perz, DrPH, MA Prevention Team Leader for the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention You might be thinking, “Is a knowledge refresher on injection safety really needed? Providers all k…
Author: Alice Guh, CDC medical officer and co-lead of Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients initiative As clinicians, we know that the nearly one million patients who receive outpatient cancer treatment each year are at risk for serious infections t…
Author – Linda Brixey, RN President of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) I am excited the CDC is continuing to develop additional tools and resources for infection control. As the president of the American Academy of Ambulatory …
Author – Bret T. Petersen, MD, FASGE, Chairman, Quality Assurance in Endoscopy Committee, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Reports of infections subsequent to gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy intermittently gain national media coverage….
Author: Melissa Schaefer, MD Medical Officer in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion As healthcare professionals, we must recognize our responsibility to protect patients – care should not provide any avenue for the transmission of infect…