Category: Infection Prevention and Control
UNMC ID Recognizes National Immunization Awareness Month
As we close out August 2024, we want to take a moment as a Division to recognize National Immunization Awareness Month. Held every August, this observance gives healthcare professionals and the public a chance to highlight the incredible importance of vaccination and to encourage conversations with providers to ensure that all are up to date […]
Aug 28, 2024
UNMC ID Recognizes STI Awareness Week
This week is Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Week, a week set aside to educate and raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, and how they impact our lives. It is also a time to work towards reducing STI-related stigma, fear, and discrimination and a time to ensure people have the tools and knowledge for prevention, testing, and treatment.
Apr 17, 2024
UNMC ID Recognizes Patient Safety Awareness Week and our Biocontainment Unit Professionals
March 12th-18th marks patient safety awareness week, an initiative intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Protecting patient safety is one of the most important responsibilities of the health care system and all its members. This week serves to recognize those who further patient safety and spark conversation on how we can continue to improve.
Mar 15, 2023
Canine or Cultures: An Alternative Method for Infection Diagnosis?
Sit. Stay. Roll over. Diagnose an infection? It seems that, in addition to being man’s best friend, dogs make pretty good infectious disease doctors. Or at least that’s the conclusion of two recent studies which trained dogs to identify UTIs or C. difficile infections in real patient samples. The results were impressive!
May 31, 2022
UNMC ID is Hiring! Seeking Medical Director Applicants
The Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE is recruiting an infectious diseases physician with interests or experience in infection prevention/healthcare epidemiology to serve as the Medical Director of the Infection Control Assessment and Promotion Program (ICAP). This is an exciting opportunity to lead, manage, and direct continued […]
May 24, 2022
The content below was provided by Jocelyn Herstein, an assistant professor at UNMC and Director of International Partnerships and Programs with the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center. She led a recently published study, collaborating with UNMC ID faculty Drs. Angela Hewlett and James Lawler. What prompted this study? Emerging infectious disease events require a […]
Apr 26, 2022
UNMC ID at #SHEASpring2022 – Where to Find Us!
The SHEA Spring conference starts tomorrow; here is your guide on where to find UNMC ID throughout the conference! Invited Training Course Workshop Lectures Tuesday, April 12th from 10:00am – 10:15am: SHEA/CDC Training Course in Healthcare Epidemiology as presented by our own Kari Simonsen. Tuesday, April 12th from 2:45pm-3:15pm: Case Studies in Pediatric Infection Control (panel […]
Apr 11, 2022
Hot Topics in Healthcare – HAIs and Infection Prevention Post-Pandemic
Post written by Dr. Kelly Cawcutt & originally posted at https://www.cloroxpro.com/blog/hot-topics-in-healthcare-hais-infection-prevention-post-pandemic/ The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to healthcare throughout the world. Fraught with high volumes of patients and paucity of resources and testing, combined with personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing shortages the past year has taught the healthcare community lasting lessons in resilience. The […]
Sep 13, 2021
Diversity in Probiotics and Diversity in Clinical Trials: Opportunities for Improvement
This is a Journal Club review by Dr. Jasmine Marcelin of “A randomized controlled trial of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG on antimicrobial-resistant organism colonization” (Rauseo, A. et al. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, (2021).
Aug 17, 2021
UVGI N95 Decontamination – a Method to Extend the Supply of N95 Respirators in Time of Emergency
Outbreaks due to respiratory viruses pose a unique threat to health care as they require often significant amounts of personal protective equipment. Based upon previous modeling of severe influenza pandemics, the need for N95 filtering face piece respirators (FFRs) would range between 1.7 and 7.3 billion FFR’s, however there were only an estimated 60 million […]
May 4, 2021
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