nurse epidemiologist

nurse ep·i·de·mi·ol·o·gist

a registered nurse with additional education in the monitoring and prevention of nosocomial infections in the client population in an agency.

Synonym(s): infection control nurse

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Vincent's Hospital before her appointment as a Nurse Epidemiologist for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Anne M. Decelles

While incidences of community-acquired MRSA have been increasing during the past five years in Iowa, there are no definitive numbers, said Mary Rexroat, RN, a nurse epidemiologist with the Iowa Department of Public Health's Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology.

Public health responding to new threat of staph infections

Dr Jacqui Reilly, consultant nurse epidemiologist, who worked on compiling the new MRSA statistics, said they had their limitations.

MRSA The shocking statistics that prove bug is still rampant

Andrus, a nurse epidemiologist in the CDC's division of healthcare quality promotion in Atlanta.

Resistance up among gram-negative bacteria: infection control strategy

Fortunately sprouts aren't very popular with the very young and the very old - and that's a good thing ," Lane County nurse epidemiologist Betsy Meredith said.

Salmonella outbreak brings recall of alfalfa sprouts

I think people kind of took heed,'' said Mary Ann Jackman, a nurse epidemiologist at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, who hopes that the popularity of vaccines this year could help stem the tide of flu season.

FLU THREAT IS IN THE AIR

Prospective surveillance for device-related infection is performed in the surgical ICU by an experienced nurse epidemiologist.

Cost-Effective Infection Control Success Story: A Case Presentation

Marion Perrin is Regional Nurse Epidemiologist with Health Canada's Medical Services Branch (MSB), Alberta Region.

Youth inoculated against deadly disease (meningitis)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6J 4Y6; and Karen Pielak, RN, BSN, Nurse Epidemiologist, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 828 W.

A school-based hepatitis B immunization program for British Columbia, Canada

Diane Baronwsky, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, a Nurse Epidemiologist at Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut, is a champion in the safe needle device field.

Global Needlestick Prevention Group Honors Award Recipients as It Marks the 3rd Annual International Sharps Injury Prevention Awareness Month

Bernie is a nurse epidemiologist who studies health effects from exposure to various types of air pollution.