This is a guide for health care workers involved in patient care activities in a health care setting. It aims to show the type of personal protective equipment needed to correctly protect oneself from COVID-19.
This document provides a list of COVID-19 testing vendors for long term care. The list contains the vendor's name, company details, testing process description, turnaround time, test and billing information, service area and contact information.
This webinar recording provides tools that nurses can use to help maintain mental well-being while caring for COVID-19 patients.
This report discusses the use of portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners to reduce the number of airborne infectious particles and exposure to simulated SARS-CoV-2 aerosols in indoor environments.
This tool can be used to assess and monitor the structural capacities of facilities to (i) allow safe COVID‑19 case management; (ii) continue to deliver essential services; and (iii) enable surge planning.
This course provides a general introduction to Acute Respiratory Infections and basic hygiene measures to protect against infection.
This visual and print poster details facemask "Do's and Don'ts" for healthcare personnel.
This document answers questions related to nursing home visitation during COVID-19, including but not limited to the steps nursing homes should take before reopening to visitors, visitation for compassionate care situations, outside visits, communal visits, and visits from the ombudsman.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This training is intended to prepare facilities to develop, manage, and maintain a surge plan.
This webinar training is intended to prepare healthcare workers to develop, manage and maintain a surge plan.
This tool provides guidance for implementing a daily huddle.
This website provides ideas and activities for staying connected to loved ones and the community.
This webpage provides a situational update on the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health's (NIOSH) recommendations regarding use of non-NIOSH approved respirators.
This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as COVID-19, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement infection prevention and control measures to ensure there is no further transmission to healthcare workers or to other patients in the health care facility.
These stories from long term care facilities focus on key takeaways from implementing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infection prevention guidelines.
This video provides a brief overview of Quality Assurance Performance Improvement for nursing homes.
This Pandemic Playbook covers hundreds of topics and issues that have affected nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This document describes the difference between compassionate care visits and general visits and covers when compassionate care visits should be permitted during COVID-19.
This module discusses the importance of a water management program in the prevention of the transmission of waterborne pathogens.
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 principles of Transmission-Based Precautions and strategies to prevent the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms.
This module provides an overview of injection safety, along with a review of recommended practices and the consequences of failure to follow safe injection practices.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) developed an online calculator aimed at expanding access to monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment for COVID-19. The calculator helps health administrators and clinicians determine and plan for resource needs to successfully ramp up treatment capacity or update existing practices.