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How to engage healthcare leaders in an infection prevention strategy
Hospital leaders play an important role in implementing infection prevention practices. Learn 5 tips for showing them the ROI.
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.
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.
Your central line procedure can help prevent CLABSI—or cause it
Are your care processes based on the human factors in healthcare? Learn how to improve safety by keeping staff capabilities and limitations in mind.
CAUTI prevention: Catheter care by CNAs and other ancillary healthcare workers
Does your team know where to hang a Foley drainage bag? Prevent dependent loops? Learn guidelines to help transporters, PT/OT and imaging techs.
Enhanced barrier precautions: 6 tips for infection prevention in nursing homes
Protecting nursing home residents from infection is challenging. Learn how to implement EBP and help stop the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms.
Hand hygiene education for patients, residents and visitors: Learn what works
Caregivers aren’t the only ones who help prevent HAIs. Discover how to make proper hand hygiene easy and convenient for everyone who enters your facility.
Harness the power of UV light disinfection to fight pathogens
UV light disinfection is effectively used in healthcare settings as a supplement to manual EVS efforts to fight infection-causing pathogens.
PAPR vs N95: A guide to air-purifying respirators
For infection preventionists, staying current on respirators is key. Get to know the differences between the latest APR devices.
Benefit of the bundle for CLABSI prevention: Webinar recap
When you’re inserting or maintaining a central line, practice and product variability can lead to HAIs. Learn how to standardize care and keep people safe.
Best practices for cleaning shared patient care devices: 5 steps for success
Who is responsible for cleaning/disinfecting portable medical equipment such as IV poles? If it’s unclear, consider using a practice bundle approach.
Did you know: Universal decolonization in the ICU helps prevent infection
The majority of HAIs are caused by bacteria on the skin and in the nose that gain access to the bloodstream, lungs and bladder by way of devices and incisions.
Clinical study: Nasal decolonization with alcohol swabs helps prevent infection
While antibiotics are commonly used to reduce nasal colonization, using them in patients prior to admission may not be appropriate for consistent prevention of S. aureus infections.
Intuitive medical devices: How designing for human factors drives best practices
Intuitively designed products make the right way the only way to use them. Learn how they help prevent CAUTI and CLABSI, increasing patient safety.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 ways to make your cleaning and disinfection standard practical and routine
Do your healthcare environmental services staff have the right process and products to kill pathogens? It’s all about efficacy, efficiency and safety.
Training EVS in healthcare: How clean is your environment of care?
Infection control in healthcare facilities isn’t possible without effective cleaning and disinfection. Learn how to help EVS staff deliver.
UV light disinfection of surfaces in healthcare settings: Webinar recap
Looking to kill more surface germs in your facility? Add a UV light sanitizer to your manual cleaning protocols: Learn why and how.
Infection control in healthcare facilities: How to drive shared accountability
Infection preventionists are challenged each day to lead infection control in their healthcare facilities. Learn ways to inspire team collaboration.
Why should your hand hygiene monitoring system include NFMI technology?
Are you familiar with the next generation of e-monitoring for hand hygiene compliance? Discover its high ROI and criteria for evaluating the systems.
Looking for ways to make the 5 moments of hand hygiene routine in your facility?
Take a simple assessment to discover strengths and gaps in compliance. Use it as a tool to drive awareness and help with HAI prevention.
Strategies for infection prevention and control in long-term care: Webinar recap
Each year, 3 million serious infections occur in long-term care settings. Learn how to prevent those that spread via MDRO transmission and other ways.
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.
Long-term care infection prevention: Building a culture of safety
Each year, about 380,000 long-term care residents die from healthcare-associated infections. Watch a brief video of AHCA’s David Gifford sharing tips.
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 infection prevention strategy
Why are HAIs an ongoing challenge? Because germs spread in multiple ways. Learn how to address all areas of risk to improve patient/resident safety.
Don’t overlook the peripheral IV line as a source of bloodstream infection
BSIs can come from any catheter source—not just a central line. And cause serious harm. Learn how to target underestimated CABSI risk from PIVs.
Caregivers and CAUTI prevention: How best practices can help them “target zero”
The goal is zero harm, but it’s difficult to get there. Ongoing education helps reinforce best practices. Download these three posters as a reminder.
What do the 2021 INS standards say about CABSI prevention? 5 proven ways to help reduce CABSIs using disinfection caps
Disinfection caps are key to protecting vascular access lines from contaminants. Learn why and how from an expert-led webinar.
New INS standards expand best practices for vascular access device care
Should you cap all lines or just central lines? Find out the answer and more in five key guidelines for disinfection.
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.
Are variations in central line dressing changes making CLABSI prevention harder?
Busy shifts and different levels of training can lead to inconsistent practice. Discover how to standardize processes to help prevent infection.
CAUTI prevention beyond insertion: 5 practices for improving catheter care
Gaps in Foley catheter care can raise a patient’s risk of developing a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). Learn how to prevent gaps.