An infection preventionist examines the DRC’s Ebola response through contact tracing and community engagement, explaining why daily follow-up, timely investigations, and trust reveal challenges that cumulative case counts alone cannot capture.
|Slideshows|December 14, 2011
Slide Show: Infection Preventionist Education
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For the December 2011 ICT cover story, we conducted a survey of its readership to better understand the education needs of infection preventionists. We present the highlights of the results of this informal survey as well as the perspectives of veteran infection preventionist Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, the director of infection prevention for Rochester General Health System in Rochester, N.Y., in response to the professional development-related challenges that these practitioners face.
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