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Vascular access team creation: How you contribute as an IP
Looking to build a vascular access team? Learn how infection preventionists are key to success.
Alternatives to catheters in your ED: How to go Foley-free
Where to start preventing CAUTIs? With alternatives to catheters in the ED. Learn 7 steps for implementing a Foley-free ED.
How effective is the environmental cleaning in your LTCF?
EVS staff in long-term care facilities need to go beyond nursing home housekeeping to help keep people safe. Learn how.
You can stop nursing home infections even with staffing issues
You can still make HAI prevention a priority. Discover 5 ways to promote best practice—and encourage staff to stay.
How to keep soft surfaces clean in your healthcare facility
Empower EVS staff to help prevent HAIs caused by pathogens on hospital linens and other soft surfaces.
How can EVS help reduce the spread of airborne diseases?
Healthcare environmental services can control floating pathogens by using UV technology. Learn how it works.
How a Texas hospital improved cleanliness and HCAHPS scores
Learn how UT Southwestern Medical Center uses best practices to reduce HAI spread and increase patient satisfaction.
10 ways to make your EVS standards practical and routine
Does your healthcare EVS have the right process and products to kill pathogens? Learn how to give staff what they need.
Training EVS in healthcare facilities: 12 tips for success
Infection control in healthcare facilities requires a clean environment of care. Learn how to help EVS staff deliver.
UV light disinfection in healthcare settings: Webinar recap
Looking to kill more surface germs in your facility? Add a UV light sanitizer to manual cleaning protocols: Learn how.
Hospital infection control: How to drive shared accountability
Infection preventionists are challenged each day to oversee infection control. Learn ways to inspire team collaboration.
Your hand hygiene monitoring system: Include NFMI technology
Are you familiar with the next generation of e-monitoring for hand hygiene? Learn criteria for evaluating the systems.
How to engage healthcare leaders in your HAI prevention plan
Hospital leaders play an important role in making infection prevention a priority. Learn 5 tips for showing them the ROI.
Make the 5 moments of hand hygiene routine in your facility
Take a simple assessment to learn compliance strengths and gaps. Use it as a tool to improve rates and help prevent HAIs.
Infection prevention and control in your LTCF: Webinar recap
Each year, 3 million serious infections occur in LTCFs. Learn how to stop the spread of MDROs and other pathogens.
Hand hygiene in healthcare: The 6 essential elements
Learn how applying these elements can help make hand hygiene second nature and reduce HAIs across your facility.
Direct observation vs. electronic monitoring of hand hygiene
Getting hand hygiene right means meeting performance criteria in multiple domains. Learn how the two methods measure up.
Target zero harm with a 3-zone infection prevention strategy
HAI prevention is an ongoing challenge. Learn how to cover the full perimeter of risk to improve patient/resident safety.
Patient bloodstream infection: Check the peripheral IV line
BSIs can come from any catheter source and cause serious harm. Learn how to target underestimated CABSI risk from PIVs.
Catheter balloons and catheter drainage bags: How-to posters
Looking for IUC guidance and techniques? Download 3 Foley catheter pieces to hang for reference.
CABSI prevention: Every catheter port needs a cap
Disinfection caps are key to protecting vascular access lines from contaminants. Learn how from an expert-led webinar.
Vascular access device and catheter hub care: Best practices
You can reduce CABSIs with the right approach. Explore the Infusion Nurses Society guidelines on needleless connectors.
Unit champion leads can help you improve CAUTI statistics
CAUTIs shouldn’t be common. A team of clinical champions can turn best practice into the only practice. Learn how.
Is your central line procedure decreasing patient safety?
Your care processes should be based on the human factors in healthcare. Learn how this approach helps improve outcomes.
Scrub the hub and more: How to promote consistent practice
Central line variations in care can lead to CLABSI. Learn how to standardize processes to help keep patients safer.
Beyond Foley insertion: 5 practices to improve catheter care
Every lapse in proper Foley catheter care can raise the risk of CAUTI. Learn how to prevent gaps.