Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking full-time infection control and prevention experts in the past few weeks. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Job listings ...
SCHAUMBURG, IL. — Skilled nursing facilities should shift away from handing infection preventionist roles to floor nurses and instead recruit professionals with a background in the field to ensure ...
Making a business case for hiring new infection preventionists starts with gathering data on the current state of infection rates and staffing concerns. Infection preventionists have an expertise that ...
Though the role of the infection preventionist is expanding in response to demand for quality in healthcare, support systems are not growing at the same rate as infection preventionists’ ...
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has developed an infection preventionist competency model to support IP education, according to an American Journal of Infection ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — At this year’s Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hiring a full-time infection prevention specialist at a skilled nursing facility in California resulted in ...
Nearly 1 in 4 for-profit nursing homes may not be complying with federal requirements regarding the designation and training of an infection preventionist to oversee infection control practices at ...
San Antonio, Texas, June 4, 2024 – In an era of hospital budget cuts and staffing freezes, a Florida hospital more than doubled staff positions for infection prevention and control (IPC) over a ...
A recent graduate of the Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH) at Drexel University, Ashley Diamond, Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and minor in Infection Control ’23, is now working ...
Carol Blanar, RN, CNOR, executive director of the Indiana Federation of Ambulatory Surgical Centers, shares six ways Indiana ASCs can strengthen their infection control programs right now. 1. Appoint ...
PLEASANTON, Calif., June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Clorox Healthcare is proud to once again partner with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) for its 2021 ...