Effective infection control requires continual staff education on correct practices and the organization’s infection control policies. For example, all staff need ... line insertion kit and ascertain ...

Align infection control policies with quality improvement initiatives ... ASC infection control staff should be familiar with identifying surgical site or procedure-related infections. 10. Perform ...

Providers have more information on how surveyors will interpret infection control and vaccination requirements moving forward thanks to updated guidance to the long-term care survey process ...

As surveyors and regulatory agencies turn sharper eyes to nosocomial infections, long-term care providers are finding their infection control policies and procedures more intensely scrutinized ...

Infection control policies are continually being introduced ... which are now disposable and safer – were once recycled. For example, metal bedpans and urinals needed to be cleaned and bagged ...

Learn more. LEWISTON — Central Maine Medical Center will keep its accreditation after addressing problems found with its infection control policies and procedures. Representatives from The Joint ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Dayton failed to follow infection control policies, and procedures were violated by a dentist accused of failing for years to ...

Aims To determine the suitability of key infection control measures currently ... 33% of practices had no policy on general disinfection and sterilisation procedures. Only 10 of the 327 responding ...