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International Nurses' Day: The Legacy of Florence Nightengale

It's World Hand Hygiene Day: Do You Know the Risks of Dirty Hands?

Nurses: On The Front Lines of Infection Control

The Patient and HAIs: Impact and Engagement

Bayesian Statistics: Probably vs. Plausability

Nurses are truly the face of healthcare. From a short visit to a clinic to an extensive stay in a hospital, it is the almost 30 million nurses...

Each year, World Hand Hygiene Day highlights a simple, evidence-based priority: clean hands reduce the spread of infection. The World Health...

This is a challenging time for nurses. With critically understaffed facilities, strikes, and the growing commercialization of healthcare, nurses find...

Two interesting studies examine the patient's perspective in hospital acquired infections. The patient experience happens to be an overlooked area in...

In the 1740s, a British minister named Thomas Bayes sat with a puzzle that had nagged at philosophers for centuries: How do we update what we believe...

It's Infant Immunization Week and next week is World Immunization Week! Never has there been a more important time to talk about the benefits of...

Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...

This week we honor Black Maternal Health Week by focusing on where our worlds intersect: Infections that affect patients during and after childbirth....

We are in a new era of vaccine hesitancy, and that reality is intersecting with long-standing gaps in access across the country. Despite incredible...

In 1965, a sweeping update to the Social Security Act quietly introduced two programs that would transform American healthcare: Medicare and Medicaid...

We live in a time of tremendous advancements in science and medicine. We can save premature babies, reattach severed limbs (how about heads?), and...

Healthcare leaders are under constant pressure to make decisions based on evidence, especially when it comes to preventing healthcare-associated...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

International Nurses' Day: The Legacy of Florence Nightengale

It's World Hand Hygiene Day: Do You Know the Risks of Dirty Hands?

Nurses: On The Front Lines of Infection Control

The Patient and HAIs: Impact and Engagement

Bayesian Statistics: Probably vs. Plausability

International Nurses' Day: The Legacy of Florence Nightengale

It's World Hand Hygiene Day: Do You Know the Risks of Dirty Hands?

Nurses: On The Front Lines of Infection Control

The Patient and HAIs: Impact and Engagement

Bayesian Statistics: Probably vs. Plausability

World Immunization Week: Health Care Workers and Vaccines

How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction

Maternal Sepsis in the US: Disparities and Opportunities

Vaccine Deserts: When Access to Healthcare, Pharmacies, and the Internet are Limited

Medicare, Medicaid and the Fight Against HAIs

5 Bizarre Beliefs About Germs from the Not-So-Distant Past

Two Statistical Models Walk Into A Hospital: Bayesian vs. Frequentist Studies