Community health nursing
Primarily working in clinics that serve low-income and homeless demographics, as well as the underinsured and uninsured, community health nurses (CHNs) play integral roles in caring for vulnerable populations.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Infection control ‘bundle’ key in reducing MRSA
Combining infection control strategies reduced hospital-associated MRSA rates 62% across VA hospital ICUs nationwide.
FDA approves new test for intestinal superbug
A new test is available that can rapidly detect Clostridium difficile and the presence of toxin B gene, a strain of bacteria that causes diarrhea, colitis and in some cases, severe intestinal conditions that can result in death.
Warn parents of measles risk with travel
Although the U.S. declared measles eradicated in 2000, the disease could make a come back due to falling vaccination rates and increased foreign travel to countries where the disease remains endemic.
Who should be liable for deaths of nine Alabama patients?
Contaminated parenteral nutrition solution is suspected in the deaths of nine patients that developed bacteremia while hospitalized.
CDC updates bloodstream infection prevention guidelines
Five key prevention strategies outlined to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections.
‘Last resort’ antibiotic use increasing
More clinicians are turning to broad-spectrum antibiotics as multidrug resistant pathogens become more common.
Cleaning intervention reduced MRSA transmission in ICU
Adding several steps to environmental cleaning protocols can help reduce patients’ risk of hospital-associated infection.
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