Infection Control

Of all the challenges U.S. hospitals face, few are as unifying as hand hygiene-extremely important and, as many facilities struggle with...Read More »

True or false: Hands should be washed or decontaminated with hand gel after every contact with a patient.Read More »

According to the latest edition of the Archive of Surgery, a basic bedside technique of gently probing a surgical incision to clean the area can...Read More »

A team approach to reducing infections resulted in the neonatal ICU (NICU) of Children's Hospital at Providence in Anchorage, AK...Read More »

You can't read anything about patient safety and quality or health reform without running into the topic of healthcare-associated infections (...Read More »

True or false: Hands should be cleaned after taking a patient's pulse, moving the patient up in bed, or taking the patient's blood pressure.Read More »

True or false: When using an alcohol-based hand gel, the gel should be placed in the palm of the hand and the hands should be rubbed together...Read More »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued a media advisory stating that hospitals and dialysis centers should do more to...Read More »

When hands are contaminated or visibly dirty, select which of the following statements is true:Read More »

The Joint Commission has opened 2012 National Patient Safety Goals (NSPG) for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and catheter-associated...Read More »