How Hand Hygiene Tech Improves Antibiotic Stewardship A recent study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology takes a close look at...

Improving Patient Care Through Nurse Wellbeing Taking care of those who care for patients is becoming a higher priority for many healthcare...

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study about drug-resistant germs (CDC, 2019) continuing to pose a threat to patient safety...

Building Magnet Recognition in Nursing Programs The Magnet Model is the next generation Magnet Recognition Program from the American Nurses Credentialing Center...

During a recent work group meeting with a hospital client, Vitalacy reviewed a month’s worth of data gathered by dispenser sensor tags...

In an acknowledgement of electronic compliance monitoring becoming an “important component of a comprehensive hand hygiene program,” the Leapfrog Group added electronic...

Compliance with hand hygiene protocols has been linked to reduced healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). For example, an academic medical center reduced the incidence...

Hospital patients depend on their care team to make sure they get well – it’s that simple. Part of that healing process...

C. diff, the common shorthand for the pathogenic bacterium Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile), is not a bug you want to pass...

  Children are better behaved when their parents are watching them, but social science suggests that this tendency to modify behavior when...