title: Bedbugs: what nurses need to know from treating lesions to treating the home, management of an infestation is multifaceted.
abstract: I t could happen to anyone. A family is vacationing, and after checking into a hotel the kids and their mother go to bed. A short while later, the husband approaches the bed where his wife is sleeping; he notices something moving on the white sheet near her head. It's an insect. He catches it, places it on a tissue, and logs onto his computer to try to identify it. Soon he realizes it's a bedbug, wakes his wife and children, and calls the front desk. The hotel's pest manager comes up and confirms it: there's a bedbug infestation in the room, and the hotel moves the family to another part of the building.
authors.affiliation: Emily R. Barnes and Billie S. Murray are Clinical Assistant Professors at West Virginia University School of Nursing in Morgantown.
authors.forename: Emily R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.forename: Billie S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001511:Bedbugs; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic