News

Annual competencies come and annual competencies go while each member of the nursing staff remains competently employed for at least one more year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) have updated a guideline, "Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections," designed to help practitioners eliminate bloodstream infections in patients with intravenous catheters, considered to be deadly and costly healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

ICT asked invited clinical experts to discuss best-practice strategies that address hand hygiene compliance.