This practical text provides essential information on:
-Infection control and its management in a health care setting
-Principles of infection control
-The roles and responsibilities of the medical consultant, consultant nurse, specialist infection control nurse, hospital matron, ward link nurse, ward sister, staff nurse, trust management and more in relation to infection control
Table of Contents: Fundamental Aspects of Infection Prevention and Control
Section 1:
1. Infectious agents, what their classifications are
2. Reservoir – where do they live
3. Portals of exit – how they move about
4. Means of transmission – direct contact
5. Portals of entry – broken skin, mucous membranes, medical devices
6. Susceptible hosts
Section 2: (practical focus)
7. Staff health, environmental hygiene, sterilisation
8. Protective measures (clothing, management of secretions, bodily fluids etc)
9. Specific precautions (food hygiene, water temperature, humidity etc)
10. Management of invasive devices, asepsis, precautions
11. Treatment and procedures, patient care, patient information
12. Roes and responsibilities in the Infection Control Team
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