Deep Dive: Deep Dive Into Infection Prevention Burnout

Without infection preventionists, the COVID-19 pandemic would have been far worse and lasted far longer. But at what cost to the infection preventionists? Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, and her colleagues examined how COVID-19 affected infection preventionists’ mental and physical health, and in an exclusive interview, she discusses how facilities and infection preventionists themselves can mitigate burnout.