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Dr. Shanina Knighton is a nurse scientist and board-certified infection preventionist who explains where germs spread in the places people live, work, eat, and gather, and what to do about it.
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Shanina C. Knighton, PhD, RN, CIC, is a nurse scientist and board-certified infection preventionist. She leads National Institutes of Health research on patient hand hygiene, chairs an international working group on a hand hygiene standard, and helps businesses and product makers build infection prevention into everyday spaces and products.
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Shanina C. Knighton, PhD, RN, CIC, known as Dr. Nina, is a nurse scientist and board-certified infection preventionist who began her career at the bedside. She is the principal investigator of CHAMPS, a National Institute on Aging trial of a hand hygiene intervention for hospitalized older adults, and since 2020 has served as convenor of the International Organization for Standardization working group developing ISO 23447 on hand hygiene performance and compliance. A National VA Quality Scholar and Veale Faculty Fellow, she created the Products Innovation and Testing Collaborative Hub with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and has co-taught BioDesign at Case Western Reserve University since 2016. Through Prevention Saves Lives and her company, Hey Dr. Nina LLC, she helps organizations, events, and product makers find where germs spread and build prevention into the way people already work. Her guidance has appeared in Martha Stewart, HuffPost, Forbes, and Consumer Reports.
In her words
By the time an apple or a bunch of grapes lands in your cart, a lot of hands have already been on it. That is reason enough to rinse before you eat, even when the food looks perfectly clean.
Wash your sheets and pillowcases at least once a week; those with skin conditions, an active lifestyle, or allergies will need to change them more frequently.
If there is visible mold, discolored dots, and you are showering in steam, you could be inhaling mold spores.
When these plastics are heated, they can break down and release harmful chemicals into your food.
Doing timeouts to wash hands before, during, and after toy play can help cut down on germs.
…restrooms get a lot of use, and most times employers do not clean them as often as they should.
Food particles get stuck and rot.
Quotes are taken from published articles. Some links open the Case Western Reserve University news summary, which links to the original story.
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