The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Acute Care Hospital Toolkit explains the four moments of antibiotic decision making and has tools to support their implementation and improve prescribing.

In the FALL 2017 Prevention Strategist, the authors state: “In spite of an increasing focus on SSI reduction efforts and overall lower infection rates, the stakes remain high for all patients having surgery. Approximately 55 percent of SSI cases may be preventable with appropriate implementation of evidence-based strategies.” Find out what’s new and what you need to know about preventing SSIs in this article.

A guide to promoting health care workforce well-being during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project Firstline aims to prepare frontline health care professionals and the public health workforce to protect themselves, their patients, and their communities from infectious disease threats, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides information on air cleaners, HVAC filters, and Coronavirus (COVID-19).

American Medical Association (AMA) adopts new policy in June 2021 aimed at improving the assessment, diagnosis, and awareness of post viral syndromes, to better diagnose and treat long-haul COVID-19.

Watch full 60-minute webinar or 5 quick videos covering highlights. Topics: COVID-19 critical presentation, care goals, innovative nursing interventions, assessment, monitoring and diagnostics.

Infection control measures are important in the prevention and mitigation of COVID-19 spread within healthcare facilities. ANA Enterprises provides several links to CDC guidance on infection prevention and COVID-19.

Find out about the science, principles, and best practices for COVID-19 vaccination. Information you can trust, for the “most trusted profession.”

Bridging the gap between knowledge deficits and effectively responding to ongoing healthcare-associated infections.

The Pew Charitable Trust highlights successful efforts to combat antibiotic resistance in human health. This site contains details of these successes and areas where increased effort is needed, as well.

From the CDC, examples of successful implementation of the Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship at small and critical access hospitals.

CDC fact sheets and graphics about antibiotic resistance.

This video was filmed at the Antimicrobial Stewardship-Focus on Implementation: Evidence-based and practical Useful Strategies Conference (July 2016)

This video was filmed at the Antimicrobial Stewardship-Focus on Implementation: Evidence-based and practical Useful Strategies Conference (July 2016)

This website presents a variety of resources on reducing antibiotic use in outpatient, inpatient, and long-term care settings. Materials include how to talk to the public about reducing antibiotic use.

To help standardize and improve infection prevention practices.

Be Antibiotics Aware, a CDC educational effort, complements USAAW by providing partners with key messages, sample social media posts, and graphics and videos they can use to spread the word within their organization.

CMS, in collaboration with the CDC, is developing an emergency regulation requiring staff vaccinations within the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare- and Medicaid-participating nursing homes.

From the ESRD Networks, PowerPoint slide decks and recorded webinars provided as quality improvement activities.

This video tutorial offers key insights and shares practical tools for promoting COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Leverage these strategies to approach conversations in a way that will leave your patients feeling valued, respected and confident.

This 13-minute quick video examines misinformation in the past and present, and its impact on vaccine acceptance. It also examines how viruses are named and variants.

This 5-minute quick video examines vaccination rates and trends in vaccine hesitancy.

This 6-minute quick video examines factors that have led to vaccine hesitancy in minority populations.

This 13-minute quick video examines solid reasons for minority populations to feel comfortable getting vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine and techniques to encourage vaccination.