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Today, CDC released two new reports that detail national estimates of HAIs and report on national and state-specific progress toward preventing HAIs. These reports show that progress is being made, but three-quarters of a million infections still

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 799-809, March 2022.

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are of increasing concern in the healthcare setting. We describe a cluster of 9 cases in hospitalized patients over a 3- month period that reflected ongoing community transmission from high-risk facilities

The alarming growth of antimicrobial resistance organisms (AMRs) and the threat caused by health care–associated infections require hospitalized individuals who are infected or colonized with AMRs to be cared for in isolation, predominantly in single

The alarming growth of antimicrobial resistance organisms (AMRs) and the threat caused by healthcare associated infections (HAIs) requires hospitalized individuals who are infected or colonized with AMRs to be cared for in isolation, predominantly in

Hospitals play a vital role in supporting moms to breastfeed, and that support has improved. The percentage of US hospitals using a majority of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding increased from about 29 percent in 2007 to almost 54 percent in

A significant change for patients and families during SARs-CoV-2 has been the restriction of visitors for hospitalized patients. We analyzed SARs-CoV-2 hospital visitation policies and found widespread variation in both development and content. This

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 1262-1282, April 2024.