Infection Control

CLEAN CARE

The International Council of Nursing's fact sheet on infection control

It states that hand hygiene is the most effective way to prevent the transmission of infections. 

• ICN Fact sheet on Infection Control

The WHO Campaign 'Clean Care is Safer Care'

The goal of Clean Care is Safer Care is to ensure that infection control is acknowledged universally as a solid and essential basis towards patient safety and supports the reduction of health care-associated infections and their consequences.

• more about Clean Care

Hand Hygiene & Standard Precautions to prevent Healthcare associated Infections

• key concepts of hand hygiene and standard precautions

The Nursing in Critical Care Virtual Issue about Infection Control

• A collection of papers about infection control issues

VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA (VAP) 

• Recommendations on the prevention of VAP
  
• Preventing VAP in Children: an Evidence-Based Protocol
  
• Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: An executive summary of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, Elimination Guide   (American Journal of Infection Control. 2010)

• Consensus based clinical guideline for oral hygiene in the critically ill  (Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2011)

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