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How to prevent CLABSI: The vital roles of the right CVC dressing and securement
Preventing CVC dislodgement and dressing disruption can be a challenge. Discover how the right products and processes help improve catheter insertion/management.
Factors affecting hand hygiene: 6 barriers and solutions to improving compliance
You can improve hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers by understanding the obstacles and taking steps to address each one. Learn how.
Face masks for healthcare workers: What protection level is right for your team?
Find out how to match mask levels with the settings and situations in your healthcare facility.
Alternatives to IUCs: How to fight CAUTIs and improve patient comfort
IUCs aren’t always necessary. Find out how new external catheter choices can help improve performance, prevent CAUTIs and increase patient comfort.
Central line dressing standardization: How your nurses and patients benefit
You count on CVC kits for guidance on device insertion and maintenance. Learn how to customize the dressings in your kits for the best outcomes.
Overcoming barriers to IUC alternatives
Discover how to educate clinicians and other stakeholders on the role of today’s innovative devices in helping prevent CAUTIs.
Make it easier to improve hand hygiene: Use products healthcare workers prefer
When clinicians approve of hand hygiene products, they’ll use them more often. Learn what it takes to boost compliance, ultimately helping to reduce HAIs.
Proper hand hygiene and skin health: How moisturizing helps prevent infection
Learn how moisturizers can help prevent chronic contact dermatitis among healthcare workers.
Hand hygiene compliance: Building the business case for electronic monitoring
Discover a 3-step process to show the monitoring device’s return on investment.
Direct observation and hand hygiene: 7 steps to accurate compliance data
If collected consistently, direct observation can be a sound tool for measuring hand hygiene compliance and the programs in place to drive and sustain it.
Hand hygiene observation: What’s the budget to meet the Leapfrog Group standard?
In only 7 steps, you can calculate the cost of 200 direct observations per unit per month.
Exam gloves and infection control: A vital part of your hand hygiene strategy
Like appropriately cleaning and sanitizing hands, proper glove use plays a vital role in protecting patients, residents and healthcare workers.
Hand hygiene compliance: Start with a simple checklist to create positive change
The most basic way to ensure high quality care is by fostering a culture of safety where hand hygiene is second nature for everyone.
The business case for building your hand hygiene program: What you need to know
Learn what makes hand hygiene the most cost-effective measure for reducing healthcare-associated infections.
Tips for cleaning patient rooms: Share these 3 posters with your EVS team
Share these tools and remind everyone to help stop the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) caused by pathogens on surfaces and in the air.
Hand hygiene: Science says it’s the first line of defense against HAIs
Centuries of studies show hand hygiene is the simplest and best way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Learn how to apply the science today.
Choosing isolation gowns: How do you identify the right one for your protection?
Understanding different levels of isolation gowns can be hard. You need to go beyond AAMI ratings to ensure you’re safe from pathogens in fluids and solids.
Measuring hand hygiene in healthcare: Steps for observing staff compliance
Observing staff on a regular basis and acting on findings can help improve compliance and safety across your facility.
Infection control in nursing homes: How do you prevent F880 citations?
With the right education, training and following of best practices in hand hygiene and PPE, long-term care staff can keep people safe from the spread of HAIs.
Should your facility adopt an electronic monitoring system for hand hygiene?
Six studies show that these systems increase hand hygiene compliance among healthcare staff. Learn why the systems are worth the investment.
Hand hygiene breakthroughs over the years and their impact on healthcare
Learn how this once mocked idea became the most important practice against the spread of infection in healthcare facilities.
Cleaning and disinfection of patient/resident rooms: What’s been on that table?
Environmental services should use the right protocols, processes and products to clean room surfaces. It’s the first line of defense in infection prevention.
Cleaning soft surfaces in healthcare facilities is only part of reducing HAIs
Environmental services needs effective cleaning and transport protocols to help prevent HAIs caused by pathogens on soft surfaces such as linens.
Airborne diseases in healthcare facilities: How does EVS help reduce the spread?
Environmental services helps prevent the spread of airborne diseases in healthcare facilities. Discover how using UV light can kill these floating microbes.
How a Texas hospital improved cleanliness and raised HCAHPS scores
Learn how UT Southwestern Medical Center uses cleaning and disinfection best practices to reduce the spread of infection and increase patient satisfaction.
How to make the standard for cleaning and disinfection automatic and routine
Keep HAIs down in your facility through products and processes designed for efficacy, efficiency and safety, that workers will realistically incorporate into their practices and routines.
Preventing HAIs: Tips for training frontline EVS workers
Adequately cleaning and disinfecting a patient’s room to prevent HAIs and doing so in a timely manner don’t necessarily have to be incompatible.
Surface disinfection utilizing UV light: Webinar recap
Surface disinfection utilizing UV light: Learn how this technology kills more pathogens, resulting in a cleaner environment of care and keeping patients safe.
How to control infections by driving shared accountability
Use change management principles to inspire collaboration and responsibility across teams to prevent HAIs.
Hand hygiene monitoring systems with NFMI technology help drive compliance
Near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) systems are the next generation of e-monitoring, reliably measuring both “in and out” and WHO 5 Moments for hand hygiene.
How to enroll senior leaders in an infection prevention strategy: 5 tips to success
Find the right language, metrics and champions to influence key stakeholders.
How can you most effectively improve hand hygiene?
Clinicians know that practicing good hand hygiene is one of the best ways to reduce infection.
Evidence-based strategies for infection prevention in long-term care: webinar recap
The numbers are daunting. As many as 3 million serious infections occur each year in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), and approximately 380,000 residents die from them.
6 key elements to better hand hygiene compliance
Taking the steps outlined can help raise your facility’s compliance rate, a major factor in reducing the spread of infection among all who enter the building.
Post-acute care infection prevention: Building a culture of safety
David Gifford shares quick tips on empowering staff to make infection prevention a priority. Learn more about creating a culture of safety with Medline’s 3-zone prevention strategy.
Direct observation vs. electronic monitoring systems
Many organizations including the Joint Commission, APIC, SHEA and The Leapfrog Group have guidelines and recommendations for hand hygiene compliance in acute care hospitals.
Target zero harm with a 3-zone prevention strategy
Discover how best practices, collaboration and culture can help get HAI rates to zero or near zero organization wide.
INS standards of practice: Don’t overlook peripheral IVs as a source of infection
Clinicians work hard to prevent central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs)—and for good reason.
The high risk of CAUTI: How can you help your team “target zero”? 3 educational posters reinforce best practices
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are among the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
What do 2021 INS standards say about CABSI prevention? 5 proven ways to help reduce CABSIs using disinfection caps
Clinicians work hard to keep up with guideline changes, new protocols and new products.
New INS guidelines expand best practices for vascular catheter disinfection
Clinicians work hard to keep patients safe and prevent infection every day.
How to prevent CAUTI: Build a team with unit champion leads
Why are CAUTIs so common? And how do you stop them? It takes an uncommon team of champions to turn best practice into the only practice. Learn how.
Preventing CLABSI hinges on accounting for the human factors in healthcare
Do you know how to apply human-centered science to make the most of staff capabilities? Learn how this strategy helps reduce CLABSI rates.
3 variations in catheter care that can lead to CLABSI
Every day, clinicians strive to standardize protocols that can help keep patients safe and prevent infection.
CAUTI prevention beyond insertion: 5 common gaps in IUC maintenance
Back in nursing school, Mary Pat Eble never learned about indwelling urinary catheters (IUCs) and the risk of infection.