Infection Control Practices while taking care of MRSA infected patients: Standard Precautions Contact Precautions Culturing of Personnel Outbreak control Appropriate device handling: Handle all the items used for patient care in a…
Category: Infection Control
Policy On VRE Infection Control
Notify Infection Control Nurse promptly when vancomycin-resistant enterococcus are detected. Inform clinical staff of the hospital’s policies regarding VRE-infected or colonized patients. Clinical staffs are essential to limiting the spread of VRE…
Transmission Based precautions
Although standard precautions are used when interacting with all patients, sometimes these precautions are not enough to stop the transmission of infections. Transmission based precautions are used as a second tier of…
Investigation Of An Outbreak
Disease outbreaks are public health emergencies that require urgent actions to investigate and respond to the situation. Definition: An outbreak is the occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behaviour or…
Occupational Exposure
An occupational exposure that may place a worker at risk of HIV infection is a percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane or contact of skin ( Especially when the skin is chapped,…
Notifiable Diseases
Under the international health regulation (WHO‘s International Health Regulations 2005) the following diseases are notifiable to WHO: Smallpox Poliomyelitis due to wild-type poliovirus Human influenza caused by a new subtype Severe acute…
Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene is the most effective method for preventing the transfer of infection between Health care personnel and Patients within the hospital. Pathogenic organisms from colonized and infected patients are carried on…
Calculation Of Device Associated Infection Rates
An infection in a patient with a device (e.g., ventilator or central line) that was used within the 48-hour period before the onset of infection is called a device-associated infection. For catheter-associated…
Guidelines For Prevention Of Surgical Site Infection
Pre-operative preparation for the patient Pre-operative preparation is based on pre-operative shaving, shower with an antiseptic solution, skin preparation and antimicrobial prophylaxis Wounds are divided into four classes 1. Clean An uninfected…