From One Mother to Another
 Nancy Haberstich 
Nancy Haberstich is a registered nurse certified in infection prevention and control. She is self-employed as an international consultant, providing consultation to hospitals in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil. Nancy served as the infection control coordinator in a 300-bed municipal hospital for 17 years and has served as technical advisor and scriptwriter for 13 training videotapes on a variety of infection prevention and control topics utilized by hospitals throughout the United States. She spent one year as a volunteer in Liberia, West Africa in 1999/2000 to reopen a school of nursing and paramedical training programs that had been destroyed by a decade of civil war. At the invitation of the Canadian Ministry of Health, Nancy consulted with one of the Toronto hospitals involved in the SARS crisis in 2003. She is the founder and owner of nanobugs, inc. |
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November 10, 2008
Announcing a New Voice for This Blog
Welcome to the revival of the “One Mother to Another.” My name is Nancy Haberstich and I am the new blogger for this popular GermStop blog. Like you, I have labels, roles and responsibilities beyond “mother.” So let me introduce myself with a list of my roles (not necessarily in order of importance): mother, grandmother, daughter of my 86-year-old mother living in a long-term care facility, sister, nurse, consultant, infection preventionist, and homeowner. (I am not a pet-owner at this time but have been in the past and hope to be in the future). Surely you can relate to me with at lease one of these roles. The purpose of this blog is to focus our attention and communication upon infection prevention in order to function effectively in the role of mother. Mothers are a critical element in creating infection-free families – we are usually the family health advocate; we serve the family as nurse, medication administrator, housekeeper or housekeeping supervisor, personal hygiene monitor for children, nutritionist, grocery shopper, laundress, to name just a few of the multitude of our secondary roles. (No wonder we are so tired) Hopefully, this blog will increase awareness of the infection risks that continually challenge our families and suggest effective techniques to prevent and control them. I will often communicate as a nurse or infection preventionist in my blog entries and I hope you will respond with generous comments from your unique maternal perspective. Let’s make this a dialogue, with conversations that help us make good decisions to promote healthy children and infection-free families.
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