This guide is designed to provide long-term care staff with basic knowledge about facility infection prevention guidelines.
The purpose of this resource is to provide guidance to long-term care facilities when making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
This document is a section of the All Cause Harm Prevention in Nursing Homes Change Package. It provides a description and list of successful practices of high-performing nursing homes and includes strategies and links to resources to prevent all types of infections.
This flyer highlights key Psychological First Aid concepts and resources disaster responders and outreach workers may use when assisting individuals affected by the pandemic. It also provides resources for further assistance.
This infographic for nurses provides instructions for disinfecting and entering the home after work.
This resource addresses infection control and prevention in nursing homes, highlighting screening and monitoring, testing and responding, and quarantine and isolation. It also provides a sample decision tree for monitoring residents during daily encounters for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
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 resource provides guidance on compassionate care during COVID-19.
This infographic demonstrates how to safely put on (don) and take off (doff) COVID-19 personal protective equipment for contact and droplet precautions.
This document contains recommendations and specifications related to core components for effective infection prevention and control programs.
This toolkit is a compilation of considerations for long-term care facilities based on lessons learned during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied by resources to inform planning and response efforts.
This preparedness checklist consists of several elements that are crucial for preparing long-term care facilities for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators; infection prevention and control focal points or staff; and internal or external professionals.
This communication toolkit contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on the World Health Organization's technical guidance on infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
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.
This tool has been developed to assess staff competency in carrying out effective hand hygiene.
This poster demonstrates how to thoroughly wash your hands.
Frontline healthcare personnel can use this checklist to evaluate patients for COVID-19.
This information is for hospital staff to use when discharging a patient to a nursing home.
This form is to be used by nursing home staff prior to patient transfer to the hospital.
This poster provides step-by-step instructions for healthcare workers on how to make a 0.1% chlorine mixture for disinfection.
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.