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Something in the Air: New Data Suggests SARS-CoV-2 Airborne Transmission

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

October 5, 2020

The emergence of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) at the end of December 2019 rapidly spread across the globe, causing a...

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Long Term Care Living in a State of Precautions: Exploring the Differences between Standard, Enhanced and Transmission-Based

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

June 15, 2020

As part of a public health containment response, on July 26th 2019, the CDC updated their guidance for LTC settings...

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Suite Success: Following Updated Environmental Cleaning Guidelines for the Operating Room (OR)

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

April 13, 2020

Cleaning an environment where surgeries take place can be overwhelming, but is such an important task in order to promote...

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A Unique Perspective on National Compliance Rates to the Central-Line Bundle

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

September 6, 2019

Every Infection Preventionist should know what The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) bundle checklist is to prevent CLABSIs...

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Swipe right if compatible

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

February 28, 2019

It would be nice if there was just a “one-stop-shop” disinfectant that would do everything7: kill claims for all the...

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Mitigating Risk in the Transmission of Epidemologically-Important Pathogens in the Healthcare Setting

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

September 4, 2018

A multi-pronged approach to environmental decontamination There is a lot of evidence showing transmission of pathogens both from surfaces in...

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Preventing Legionnaires Disease

Author: Amanda Thornton, CIC, RN, MSN

December 20, 2017

Did you know that one in ten persons who contract the Legionnaires disease will die from it? (1). Although it’s...

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