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Archive >  Infection Control 2009

Yes or No to Home Laundering?

We turn this hotly debated issue inside-out.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

If you let your staff launder their scrubs at home, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it, says Nancy Bjerke, RN, MPH, CIC, an infection control consultant with Infection Control Associates in San Antonio, Texas.

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