Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

Nursing facilities and skilled nursing facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs must comply with certain mandatory ...

Find out more about the winner and shortlisted entries in the Infection Prevention and Control category at the 2024 Nursing Times Awards. The winners of the 2024 Nursing Times Awards were announced at ...

Few of the many nonpharmacologic efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes during the pandemic were ...

Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes ... showed that infection-control procedures were still sorely lacking at many facilities.

“Nursing homes are required by CMS to implement all public health infection prevention and control recommendations, therefore if they do not have current and updated access to the ...

Victoria Pye, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. Background to learning Many nurses have been redeployed as part of the COVID-19 response – sometimes to several different wards across the trust in ...

RESIDENTS in Carrigoran House, Newmarket-on-Fergus expressed a high level of satisfaction with the care staff provided, ...

Medicines, such as antivirals and vaccines, which had more solid evidence showing they were effective compared to other types of safety measures, were ...