Barbara Barzoloski-O'Connor
MSN, RN, CIC
Barbara Barzoloski-O'Connor, MSN, RN, CIC, is the infection control manager at Howard County General Hospital, Columbia, Md.
Courses Authored
34,451 Reviews
Healthcare professionals are responsible for monitoring the performance of all personnel, licensed or not, under....
22,026 Reviews
Healthcare professionals are responsible for monitoring the performance of all personnel who are under their aut....
15,639 Reviews
Each year, Streptococcus pneumoniae — a bacterium — is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in t....
7,527 Reviews
This course has been approved for 6 hours by the Commission on Case Manager Certification for 2019 and 2020. On....
7,071 Reviews
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of states of health and of the determinants of deviations from hea....
24,889 Reviews
International travel has become a way of life for many people. Education, counseling, and proper immunization ar....
1,977 Reviews
While mad cow disease and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease won’t affect most nurses’ day-to-day practice, n....
281 Reviews
More than 30 years have passed since radon was recognized as a threat to the health of Americans, and more than ....
7,987 Reviews
An estimated 6 million to 12 million infestations of head lice occur each year in the U.S. among children ages 3....
1,568 Reviews
The last outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949, and the last naturally occurring case of sm....
23,189 Reviews
Clostridium difficile, a gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacteria, is the major cause of nosocomial diar....
1,563 Reviews
The overall incidence of life-threatening invasive fungal infections such as Candida and Aspergillus has increas....
914 Reviews
In 2017, an estimated 219 million people developed malaria, and close to a half million people died of it, most ....
2,552 Reviews
Dengue fever is caused by a flavivirus, the family of viruses that includes yellow fever and West Nile virus, ....
8,292 Reviews
Over time, new infectious diseases continue to emerge. Many well-known diseases thought to be under control have....
4,008 Reviews
The number of parasitic infections from food has been rising in recent years, and they are of growing concern. T....
4,571 Reviews
Measles is primarily a disease of childhood, but it can also occur in adolescents and adults. It is one of the m....
31,912 Reviews
An estimated 1 in 25 patients has a hospital-acquired infection on any given day according to the Centers for Di....
7,231 Reviews
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a lethal pulmonary disease caused by a newly emerged coronavirus. The....
538 Reviews
Healthcare professionals are responsible for monitoring the performance of all personnel who are under their aut....