Nurses play a crucial role in reversing negative trends. After years of steady reductions, resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths increased at least 15% during the first year of the pandemic, according to a 2022 special report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COVID-19: U.S. Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance. In 2020, CDC…
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