Becker's Healthcare October 31, 2024
Emory University in Atlanta recently launched a Healthcare Test Kitchen Lab to examine how pathogens spread in clinical settings and to inform infection prevention protocols.
Jill Morgan, RN, site manager of the serious communicable diseases unit at Emory University Hospital, conceived the idea for the lab. Ms. Morgan became the first nurse in the U.S. to care for a patient with Ebola virus in 2014, when Emory admitted two healthcare workers who contracted the virus in Liberia.
“Our patients who contracted Ebola virus disease were all healthcare workers themselves traveling in Africa and none of them knew exactly how they had gotten exposed. They trusted their protocols and processes, too. How do we know that we stayed safe...
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