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Healthcare Worker Vaccination is Important for Respiratory Virus Season 2024

Healthcare worker rolls up her sleeve to show bandaid after getting vaccination

Respiratory virus season is here. As a healthcare worker, you play a critical role in slowing and preventing the spread of viral respiratory infections, including flu and COVID-19. Like hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and environmental cleaning and disinfection, vaccination is a critical tool in our infection control toolbox. Getting vaccinated in combination with Read More >

January 31, 2025 by Janet Glowicz, PhD, RN, Infection Preventionist with Project Firstline in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion1 Comment

Healthcare-associated infections

Ethiopian Hospitals Use Infection Prevention and Control Practices to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

This story has moved and can be found on the International Infection Control Website at https://www.cdc.gov/international-infection-control/php/stories/ethiopian-hospitals-use-ipc.html Read More >

October 18, 2023 by Guest authors: Sophie Jones and Elizabeth Soda4 Comments

Advancing Global Healthcare Safety

Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Use (Stewardship), Antimicrobial-resistant infections, Hand Hygiene, Healthcare-associated Infections, Infection Control and Prevention, Infection Prevention

Reminder: Infection Control Actions to Take During Respiratory Virus Season

Last year’s considerable respiratory virus season saw spread of COVID-19, flu, and RSV, which led to extra stress on an already overwhelmed healthcare system. When respiratory viruses are spreading in the community, the risk for spread in healthcare settings increases as well. Remember: Regardless of your healthcare setting or which respiratory viruses are spreading in Read More >

September 7, 2023 by Mike Bell, MD1 Comment

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Infection Control and Prevention, Infection Prevention

Protecting Long-Term Care Residents from Sepsis

Long-term care (LTC) settings, such as nursing homes/skilled nursing facilities and assisted living, are home to individuals who are unable to live independently and who need a variety of services, including both medical and personal care. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2015, there were 1.5 million residents living in nursing homes/skilled Read More >

September 13, 2022 by Heather Jones, DNP, NP-C5 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Long Term Care (LTC)

Healthcare-associated Infections, Infection Control and Prevention, Infection Prevention, Long-term care staff, Sepsis

Demonstrating the Ability to Protect Healthcare Personnel from COVID-19 in High-Risk Settings

This content can also be found on the NIOSH Science Blog. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about stresses to the U.S. healthcare workforce never seen before. Since early in the pandemic, reports have abounded of healthcare personnel (HCP) being infected, sometimes resulting in severe outcomes and death. As of July 20, 2022, there have been nearly 1 Read More >

July 22, 2022 by L. Clifford McDonald, MD, and David Weissman, MD1 Comment