Video Series

As seasonal viruses surge and recent outbreaks like measles highlight vulnerabilities, infection prevention experts are extending their reach into schools, recognizing that healthy classrooms are essential to healthy communities.

In this interview, completed shortly before the HSPA 2025 conference, as she prepared to take the helm as HSPA’s next president, Arlene Bush, CRCST, CER, CIS, SME, DSMD, CRMST, discusses humility, determination, and a bold vision to elevate sterile processing professionals and broaden the association’s impact.

In 2025, vaccine science is thriving—but trust is faltering. ICT and Medical Economics convene experts to examine policy shifts, hesitancy, and the path forward through evidence and empathy.

Discover how innovative strategies in scheduling, staff engagement, and continuous learning transformed a hospital’s environmental services, enhancing efficiency, employee satisfaction, and patient care standards.

Learn how Cameron Memorial Community Hospital revamped waste management protocols through collaboration, signage, and team training, achieving efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced compliance in high-risk areas like ORs and EDs.

Cameron Memorial Community Hospital streamlined pharmaceutical waste management through signage, training, and collaboration, cutting waste nearly in half and saving costs while boosting staff competencies and accountability.

Cameron Memorial Community Hospital streamlined cleaning practices by consolidating products, saving costs, empowering staff, and ensuring infection control. Collaborative efforts fostered efficiency, safety, and improved staff engagement.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 4, 2024.

Continuing the round table discussion, experienced IPs continue their discussion on recognizing and preventing burnout, emphasizing leadership roles, peer support, and fostering open conversations in health care settings.

Frontline infection preventionists (IPs) face burnout due to challenges in public health. This Round Table on IP Burnout discusses strategies to prevent and address this critical issue. The IPs emphasize the importance of understanding burnout, recognizing signs, addressing stigma, and implementing multilayered prevention strategies for both individuals and organizations.

As tropical viruses increase in the US, Infection Control Today wanted to learn more about chikungunya. Here is what we learned.

Deborah Birx, MD, highlights concerns about the lack of data-driven action in the fight against COVID-19. She emphasizes the need for timely alerts and empowering communities to protect vulnerable individuals.

Deborah Birx, MD, discusses the significance of collaboration, innovation, data-driven decision-making, and community engagement in public health. Her insights underscore the need for trust-building and adaptability in pandemic response.

In this third installment of the interview, managers at Sage Memorial Hospital describe how the OhmniLab robots have become part of their team, complete with Navajo names.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the infection prevention field had to think outside the box they were used to. The Navajo Nation was no different. Outside their box, they found UV-C robots.

To control C auris, focus on using antibiotics and improving diagnostics. New treatments in development offer hope for better management. This is the fourth and final installment in CDC's interview with the ICT.

CDC warns about Candida auris spreading if health care workers don't take preventative measures in an interview with Infection Control Today.

To prevent the spread of C auris, the CDC recommends that IPs and environmental hygienists play a critical role. In this interview, the medical scientists clarify what specific actions they should take.

To ensure the accuracy of the information concerning Candida auris, Infection Control Today has spoken with 2 medical scientists from the CDC.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending April 30, 2023.

Welcome to the Inside Track with Infection Control Today video series, an ongoing series of informational and how-to videos on infection control and prevention topics. This video is about hand washing (soap and water) and hand rubbing (alcohol-based hand rub).

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST, continues her interview with ICT about why IPs' involvement with their facility's cleaning and disinfection programs is so critical.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending March 12, 2023.

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST, does a deep dive into what the key priorities infection preventionists and environmental hygienists should focus on in 2023. This is the first of 3 installments.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 3, 2023.

How can food service and health care workers prevent the spread of norovirus? Keeping employees at home, using the correct products the right way, and more.

Are norovirus cases going to skyrocket, or will the pandemic slowdown of this infectious disease continue?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 6, 2023.

In this second installment of 3, Infection Control Today® continues a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines and how it affects the entire family.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 24, 2022.