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Infection control for COVID-19: protecting your patients and yourself

Written by infection control specialist Mary McGoldrick, MS, RN, CRNI®

Healthcare workers who provide services to patients in their homes are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Infection control is essential in this effort—to protect patients, healthcare providers, and the general public.

Renowned infection control specialist Mary McGoldrick, MS, RN, CRNI® recently presented a free webinar that is available for on-demand viewing. The webinar provides practical guidance on how to prevent and control the transmission of COVID-19 and strengthen your infection prevention and control program. Now, Mary provides extensive responses to the most frequently asked questions during the webinar in this new FAQ document.

Get answers to these questions and more:

  • Since patients can have COVID-19 but be asymptomatic, should care providers wear PPE as though all patients are infected?
  • What are some appropriate ways to disinfect masks and gowns?
  • How can caregivers avoid bringing infection from patient visits into their own homes or cars?

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Mary McGoldrick, MS, RN, CRNI®

Mary McGoldrick, MS, RN, CRNI® has been a pioneer in the field of infection prevention and control in home care and hospice for over 25 years, with seminal works published on infection prevention and control for the home health and hospice industries. Mary began her home care career more than 40 years ago as a home health aide, and since that time has served in a myriad of home care clinical, management, and executive-level positions, including a hospice volunteer. Additionally, she served as a home care and hospice surveyor for The Joint Commission for 12 years, and as a subject matter expert on infection prevention and control in home care to the CDC-HICPAC, APIC, and others. Mary is an author of more than 125 articles and several books, chapters, and manuals on topics related to infection prevention and control in home care and hospice, including the Home Care Infection Prevention and Control Program and the first and second editions of the APIC book on Infection Control in Home Care and Hospice.

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People who choose a life of caring — and the organizations and communities they serve — deserve a special kind of support. So we help them to care smarter. Liberating them to focus on the people they serve. Providing solutions that make work flow, integrate insights, and update effortlessly. So they're able to anticipate — and exponentially increase — the impact of care.