The Joint Commission Infection Prevention and Control Handbook for Hospitals
Available August 2010. 248 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59940-383-0
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Imagine that a patient goes to the hospital for minor surgery or to have a baby and instead acquires an infection. Imagine you are a nurse who acquires an infection due to a sharps injury. Imagine you are a hospital executive who realizes the hospital has incurred millions of dollars in extra charges from treating preventable infections. Hospital staff don’t need to imagine—they face countless infection threats throughout the hospital everyday.
Now there is a new resource to help hospitals win the battle over infections. The Joint Commission Infection Prevention and Control Handbook for Hospitals serves as a roadmap to help hospitals prevent infections before they cause harm to hospital patients and staff. This book is unique because it discusses best practices to prevent infections throughout the hospital and also presents prevention strategies tailored to meet the unique circumstances of specific hospital departments.
The book is organized into the following two parts:
- Part 1 provides an overview of infection prevention and control practices that need to be implemented hospitalwide, such as hand hygiene, personal protection equipment, and sharps injury prevention. It also presents evidence-based practice recommendations aimed at eradicating six of the most problematic health care–associated infections.
- Part 2 explains infection prevention and control strategies for the following hospital departments and high-risk populations: anesthesia, cardiac cath laboratory, central services, dialysis, emergency, environmental services, food and nutrition, geriatric patients, ICU, immunocompromised patients, laboratory, laundry service, medical waste management, obstetrics, pathology, pediatric and neonatal patients, pharmacy, radiology, respiratory care services, and surgery
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