Posts Tagged ‘CLEANING AUDIT’
The role of the environmental hygiene nurse in preventing HCAI
An interesting article published recently in Infection Prevention in Practice illustrates the potential for a dedicated nursing role focussed on environmental hygiene to prevent HCAI. The study was performed in a 32-bed general ICU in Argentina. The intervention was the introduction of a novel post: the “Hospital environmental hygiene nurse”. This post was a full-time post dedicated to direct…
Read MoreGAMA Healthcare updates from Infection Prevention 2017
We all enjoyed Infection Prevention 2017 — and hope that you did too! Here’s a few scientific updates relating to our product range that were presented at the conference, published in the Journal of Infection Prevention: Please feel free to contact us if you’d like any more information about these updates.
Read MoreInfection Prevention 2016: a bug’s eye view
Another IPS conference has been and gone, and what a lot of fun and learning to be had! New research published, new products launched, and new contacts made – all in a few days in sunny Harrogate. Several of the lectures were outstanding: Prof Gary French on the ‘swing’ away from antibiotic-resistant Gram-positive bacteria towards…
Read MoreEvidence of source control for XDR Acinetobacter outbreak management grows
There is a steadily growing body of evidence that chlorhexidine washcloths can be effective in controlling multi-resistant Gram-negatives. Hot on the heels of a paper that demonstrated the effectiveness of the in controlling spread of Acinetobacter in a critical care unit1 comes a further paper relating to a hospital-wide outbreak of multi-resistant Acinetobacter. A new paper2 from Gray…
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