The development of a long-term care infection prevention compendium during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Long-term care (LTC) facilities experienced significant morbidity and mortality rates among both residents and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, for which they were ill-prepared to practice adequate infection prevention and control (IPC).

Methods: Our team developed a process for creating a compendium of curated IPC resources. This process harnessed the experience and expertise of nurses actively working in LTC during the pandemic.

Infection prevention and control in nursing homes during COVID-19: An environmental scan.

To examine processes and programmatic elements of infection prevention and control (IPC) efforts and identify themes and promising approaches in nursing homes (NHs), an environmental scan was conducted. Data sources included a literature search, relevant listservs and websites, and expert consensus based on a virtual summit of leaders in IPC in long-term care settings. Three thematic areas emerged which have the potential to improve overall IPC practices in the long-term care setting: staffing and resource availability, training and knowledge of IPC practices, and organizational culture.

Reflections from the "Forgotten Front Line": A qualitative study of factors affecting wellbeing among long-term care workers in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While long-term care (LTC) facilities serving older adults have long struggled with low employee morale and high rates of staff turnover, the COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to these facilities and the frontline staff working in them. This study aimed to explore factors that influenced the personal and professional wellbeing of care providers working in LTC facilities across New York City (NYC) during the pandemic. Fourteen semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with frontline care providers working in LTC facilities across NYC.