Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

Victoria Pye, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. Background to learning Many nurses have been redeployed as part of the COVID-19 response – sometimes to several different wards across the trust in ...

Infection control and antibiotic stewardship are critical components of healthcare, particularly in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) where residents are often frail and at higher risk for infections.

Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes ... showed that infection-control procedures were still sorely lacking at many facilities.

NICE guideline: Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care (CG139) NICE quality standard: Infection prevention and control (QS61). The guideline and quality ...

Pavani Kottapalli has implemented transformative initiatives that have significantly impacted infection control protocols, ...

Decreasing comorbidities and increasing vaccination rates among Black, indigenous and other people of color could help balance out symptomatic infection rates, according to a modeling study ...

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. Background to learning The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for strong relationships between health and social care. During the pandemic ...

The programme covers patient safety, infection control, and specialised care. Ankura Hospital for Women and Children has ...

Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...