Infection Control Today


	May 26, 2020


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	Q&A: How Bacterial Infections Can Complicate COVID-19 Cases

Yi Guo, PharmD: “I think one thing that we learned is to work closely with the infection control preventionists because when we discovered the patient has multidrug resistant bacteria, we want to make sure the appropriate isolation policy is in place.”

Tele-Handle Patients With Care During COVID-19 Crisis

Start out with brief non-urgent telemedicine encounters; get the patients used to the process.

Nurse Manager Oversight Helps Maintain Hand Hygiene Standards

Not only did nurse managers feel responsible for the levels of hand hygiene adherence on their wards, but that attitude extended to general standards of infection prevention.

Q&A: COVID-19 Lets Telemedicine Prove Itself

Daniel F. Shay, Esq.: “COVID-19 is not the last infectious disease that we’re going to encounter…. I think that there are good reasons to use telemedicine to the extent that you can reduce the risk to healthcare practitioners, healthcare professionals, and also to other patients, and, frankly, the general populace.”

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