Historic Shortage: Infection Prevention Staffing in the Pandemic & Beyond
The pandemic not only required more Infection Prevention & Control professionals to manage the urgent call for support, but it also expedited retirement plans for many nurses who were in the high risk...
30 Aug 202142min
Safety in Every Touch: Environmental Services of Care
Environmental Services touches every surface of the hospital, but do we always recognize how integral they are to the infection control team? Additionally, EVS workers have direct patient contact but...
16 Aug 202155min
Short on Time: Current Threats and Challenges in Long Term Care
There is no doubt that Long Term Care facilities were hit hard during the pandemic. In many cases, these facilities do not have a dedicated infection control practitioner on staff which represented a...
2 Aug 202140min
Basic Instinct: Bacterial Survival Techniques, Biofilm and Future Threats
You may be familiar with biofilm but what do you know about small colony variants -- and the impact that they have on infection control and public health? All living organisms have a universal prime ...
19 Juli 202139min
At Risk?: Addressing GI Patient Populations & Facility Risk Assessments
Within the world of GI endoscope reprocessing there exists a debate on whether or not sterile water should be used during procedures versus tap water. Running parallel to that debate is whether the i...
5 Juli 202131min
Fixated on Flexible Scopes: Reviewing Dry time and Alcohol Flush Research
Endoscope drying times and the use of an alcohol rinse has become an area for debate and emerging research is increasing with each passing day. Advanced inspection technology such as borescopes and t...
21 Juni 202141min
Endoscopic Infections: Critical Conversations Prompting the Multisociety Guidelines Update
Given the rising concerns of endoscope-related infections around the country, organizations, agencies, and providers believed it was imperative to evaluate the current literature and standards for end...
7 Juni 202147min
Hidden Harm: The Reporter Who Blew the Lid Off the FDA MAUDE Database
Did you know there was database that concealed millions of medical device malfunction and injury reports from public view? Neither did anyone else until Christina Jewett, Senior Correspondent with Ka...
24 Maj 202134min
