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Negotiating More Resources for Infection Control

Hit administration with numbers, facts and long- and short-term effects.

Pat Lafaro, RN, BS, CIC

If the operating room is the economic engine, then the infection prevention department is the cost center, the little factory within the surgical facility where no one thinks much about what you're doing unless something goes wrong. When all's well, all's quiet. But that kind of peace can sometimes lull administration into minimizing the importance of what infection control does.

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