Infection Control Today, May 2020 (Vol. 24 No. 4)

Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in healthcare facilities today.

The discussion and research underscore the potential advantages of vascular access services teams (VASTs) for assessment, insertion, management, complications reduction, and staff education.

Renovation or construction that happens in preexisting spaces or occupied areas have very different sets of challenges than the building of new facilities.

The media, public health officials, and politicians are accused of being too quick to find fault with nursing home providers.

These pathogens are relentless, they are evolutionarily programed to win, and they are currently doing just that.

One hospital has asked workers to consider shaving their beards.

Ideally, link nurses increase awareness of infection control issues and motivate colleagues to improve in that regard, keeping patients and themselves safer by limiting the spread of HAIs.