Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, ...

Editor’s note: This column is being published posthumously, after the author’s death in May. In addition to leading NADONA for more than 20 years, Sherrie had been a devoted, skillful columnist for ...

The updated guidelines include additional rationale for the use of enhanced barrier precautions and an expansion of residents that the guidelines are applicable to. Any resident with an “indwelling ...