A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection ...

MOKENA, ILL. — For the first time, ASSE International will offer the opportunity to become ASSE Certified during its 2017 annual meeting, held Nov. 7-10, 2017, at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San ...

Mandatory training in infection prevention and control consists of a mixed approach, with face-to-face, lecture-style presentations and e-learning methods. WHO (2019) suggested that any training ...

National infection prevention experts, led by the CDC’s Health Research & Educational Trust, have developed a new curriculum focused on infection control. The training program is called STRIVE, for ...

Maritime medical and public health specialist Vikand Solutions has launched an online infection control officer training course for the cruise and commercial shipping industries. The course equips ...

The Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services will provide $50,000 in COVID-19 relief funding to make free infection control training available for direct care workers, the state said ...

The Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (CPHRC) and Office of Education, both within the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), have collaborated to develop and launch ...

Staff training and consistency can help ASCs improve their infection control efforts over time, according to ASC software developer Simplify ASC. 1. Streamlining processes. With more procedures ...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - While nearly 400,000 residents of long-term care facilities die as a result of healthcare associated infections (HAIs), these facilities continue to lack the resources, ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...