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
32,704 Reviews
Healthcare professionals are responsible for monitoring the performance of all personnel, licensed or not, under....
19,301 Reviews
Healthcare professionals are responsible for monitoring the performance of all personnel who are under their aut....
15,468 Reviews
Each year, Streptococcus pneumoniae — a bacterium — is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in t....
7,011 Reviews
This course has been approved for 6 hours by the Commission on Case Manager Certification for 2019 and 2020. On....
5,894 Reviews
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of states of health and of the determinants of deviations from hea....
24,599 Reviews
International travel has become a way of life for many people. Education, counseling, and proper immunization ar....
63,816 Reviews
The HIV epidemic has slowed from a period of rapid growth during the mid- to late- 1980s to a more stable preval....
1,859 Reviews
While mad cow disease and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease won’t affect most nurses’ day-to-day practice, n....
250 Reviews
More than 30 years have passed since radon was recognized as a threat to the health of Americans, and more than ....
7,662 Reviews
An estimated 6 million to 12 million infestations of head lice occur each year in the U.S. among children ages 3....
1,201 Reviews
Mercury poisoning still threatens people’s health and lives, and healthcare providers across various disciplin....
1,497 Reviews
The last outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949, and the last naturally occurring case of sm....
22,879 Reviews
Clostridium difficile, a gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacteria, is the major cause of nosocomial diar....
1,499 Reviews
The overall incidence of life-threatening invasive fungal infections such as Candida and Aspergillus has increas....
870 Reviews
In 2017, an estimated 219 million people developed malaria, and close to a half million people died of it, most ....
2,506 Reviews
Dengue fever is caused by a flavivirus, the family of viruses that includes yellow fever and West Nile virus, ....
7,841 Reviews
Over time, new infectious diseases continue to emerge. Many well-known diseases thought to be under control have....
2,930 Reviews
Viral hepatitis is endemic in many parts of the world. In the United States, hepatitis B is the most common caus....
3,850 Reviews
The number of parasitic infections from food has been rising in recent years, and they are of growing concern. T....
22,807 Reviews
This module describes four common biting insects that use human blood as a source of food. It also includes info....