Informed infection control practice / Rozila Horton and Lynn Parker, with a contribution by Diane Thompson ; foreword by Sheila Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton, Rozila.

Contributor:

Parker, Lynn, RGN

Thompson, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infection.

Communicable diseases--Prevention.

Communicable diseases.

Communicable diseases--Transmission.

Clinical epidemiology.

Infection Control.

Medical Subjects:

Infection Control.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2002.

Summary:

Informed Infection Control Practice is a comprehensive book covering every aspect of infection control nursing from clinical work to management and education. It addresses the control and prevention of infection in the community at large, including primary health care as well as the hospital sector, making it essential reading for infection control students and course tutors, ICNs and ICDs. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and restructured and now includes chapters on infection control in developing countries and on knowledge management: important for anyone practising in this specialty who wants to access information using modern technology. Other chapters include new information on core processes and activities of infection control, controls assurance, role development, key competencies, performance indicators and national evidence-based guidelines. Section 2 of the book has been rewritten from the previous edition, taking the individual links of the chain of infection as its theme and incorporating current theory and practice to each of the links. This will help those whose role it is to teach the subject of infection control to bridge what is often referred to as the 'theory-practice gap'.

Contents:

Section 1 Strategic aspects of infection control 1

1 The changing role of infection control 3

2 Essential infection control: a framework for practice 15

3 Management of infection control 35

4 Knowledge management 59

5 Infection control and developing countries 69

Section 2 Infection control knowledge and practice 89

6 Infectious agents 93

7 Reservoirs 123

8 Portals of exit 183

9 Means of transmission 201

10 Portals of entry 225

11 Susceptible hosts 257

12 Safe care: reflective practice 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0443071020

OCLC:

51096038