Recent social science scholarship has sought to understand the visible and invisible impacts of how antibiotics are entrenched as infrastructures and put to work as a proxy for higher levels of care (clinical or otherwise) within modern healthcare. Using a qualitative research design, in this paper our aim is to draw attention to less visible aspects of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in residential aged care and their implications for nurse-led optimization of antibiotic use in these settings. By developing an account of the perceptions, experiences and practices of staff regarding the ‘on the ground’ work associated with implementing and upholding AMS objectives our study extends research on attempts to dismantle antibiotic infrastructures in Australian residential aged care facilities (RACF). Drawing on a review of relevant policies, empirical data is presented from fifty-six in-depth interviews conducted in 2021 with staff at 8 different RACFs. Interview participants included m
MANILA - The Quezon City government is looking into the possible cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak in a convent in the city after 114 persons have been infected. A total of 64 nuns and 50 of their staff of lay partners, health aides, caregivers, a nurse, and drivers of the congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM) located in Cubao yielded positive swab test results. Quezon City's Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit (CESU) said Wednesday that 22 of those infected are asymptomatic, 86 experiencing mild symptoms, four are moderate, and two are severe and currently in the intensive care unit. No one among the nuns have been vaccinated against Covid-19 after they canceled their vaccination schedule, the CESU said. The staff, however, have been fully vaccinated. Upon learning about the outbreak, the city carried out massive contact tracing to contain the further spread of the disease. The city government learned about the situation only after t