This brief document describes steps to clean and disinfect a nursing home or other healthcare facility, what to do when someone is sick, and additional considerations for employers.
This infographic includes tips for clinicians to encourage taking care of themselves one small way each day.
This document guides the interpretation of results when antigen tests are used in the following circumstances: testing of symptomatic residents and healthcare professionals, testing of asymptomatic residents and healthcare professionals in facilities as part of an COVID-19 outbreak response, and testing of asymptomatic healthcare professionals in facilities without a COVID-19 outbreak as required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recommendations.
This document provides ideas for keeping in touch with loved ones living in long-term care facilities when you are unable to visit them in-person.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
This module provides healthcare providers with information about COVID-19 vaccine Emergency Use Authorization and safety, as well as general information about vaccine storage, handling, administration, and reporting.
This visual and print poster details facemask "Do's and Don'ts" for healthcare personnel.
This flyer provides instructions on how to use V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This poster provides step-by-step instructions for healthcare workers on how to make a 0.1% chlorine mixture for disinfection.
Clinical leaders can use this tool to assess infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in nursing homes with an active outbreak of COVID-19.
This example inter-facility infection control patient transfer form can assist in fostering communication during transitions of care.
This document provides answers and visual guides to Frequently Asked Questions concerning the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 Point of Care (POC) Test Result Reporting Tool.
This flyer provides messaging to encourage long term care staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
This module provides an overview of infection prevention and control programs and how to implement an infection prevention and control program at your facility.
This module discusses recommended practices for reprocessing reusable resident care equipment.
This module describes the role that environmental surfaces play in pathogen transmission and recommended practices for cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces.
This module discusses the importance of a water management program in the prevention of the transmission of waterborne pathogens.
This module discusses recommended practices for linen management. At the conclusion of the module, participants will understand how linens may transmit pathogens, and will be able to describe recommended practices for linen management.
This module discusses strategies to diagnose, prevent, and control serious lower respiratory tract infections in nursing homes.
This module discusses occupational health considerations for the infection prevention and control program. At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to describe occupational health considerations for the infection prevention and control program, including prevention and management of infectious occupational exposures and staff illness.
This module discusses the importance of antibiotic stewardship and identifies strategies to implement antibiotic stewardship activities in nursing homes.
This module discusses infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship considerations during transitions of care. At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to: 1. describe the importance of communication during care transitions; 2. define the characteristics of an ideal care transition; and 3. identify key infection risk and antibiotic use information that should be communicated during care transitions.
This module describes the role of an infection preventionist, who serves as the lead of a infection prevention and control program.
This module describes how infection prevention and control program activities can be integrated into an existing Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program.