Chris | April 25, 2010
Who spends more time with patients than the healthcare worker? Physicians, nurses, dieticians, physical therapist, housekeeping, and social workers are in and out of patient rooms multiple times a day. But for the most part, the nursing assistants spend the majority of the shift physically caring for Long-term Care patients; no one else gets in [...]
Chris | April 15, 2010
If you are the Staff Developer and the Infection Preventionist you are most likely responsible for Employee Health as well; that includes annual resident and employee Tuberculosis screenings with PPD. What do you do if an employee converts from a negative to a positive PPD?
To begin with, The Preventionist needs to be skilled at administering [...]
Chris | April 5, 2010
“It’s in the Infection Control Manual”
I receive calls and questions from Staff Developers and Directors of Nursing on a daily basis. Remember when we were young students working on a report and we asked our parents how to spell a word? We wanted the answer immediately but instead, they told us to “look it up”. Now [...]