Infection Control. COURSE OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this course is to prepare healthcare workers to prevent and control the spread of infection using current, evidence-based knowledge of the chain of infection, Standard Precautions and transmission-based precautions, and engineering and work practice controls.
Letter from President Obama to US Government employees affected by the shutdown in 2013. In United States politics, a government shutdown is the process the Executive Branch must enter into when Congress and the President fail to pass legislation funding government operations and agencies.
Government Shutdown: By the Numbers. Every single government department and agency -- from the U.S. Postal Service to the Department of Education to the Environmental Protection Agency to NASA -- have been bracing for the immediate effects of a government shutdown after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach a deal on how to fund the government.