To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) In our presurgery unit, the nurses are ...

Evidence-based interventions, such as educational strategies, clinical practice guidelines, and audit and feedback, are associated with reducing inappropriate antibiotic use and improving guideline ...

Overprescribing antibiotics breeds antibiotic resistance. A new tool aims to lower a notably high rate of such prescriptions in Rwanda.

A recent Nature journal study uses a deep learning approach to explore chemical sub-structures that helped discover structural classes of antibiotics. Study: Discovery of a structural class of ...

Valerie Ness received funding from the Chief Scientist Office/Scottish Infection Research Network. Jacqui Reilly, Kareena McAloney-Kocaman, Kay Currie, and Lesley Price do not work for, consult, own ...

A scoping review reveals that nurses’ routine use of non-sterile gloves during IV antibiotic preparation offers no proven protection, and may actually undermine infection control, increase costs, and ...