Informed Infection Control Practice

Informed Infection Control Practice 2e is a comprehesive 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 also includes chapters on infection control in developing countries and on knowledge management, important for anyone practising in this speciality who want to access information using modern technology.

Other chapters include new information on the core processes and activities of infection control, controls assurance, role development, key competencies and 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'.Covers the latest developments in government guidelines, legislation and clinical practice developments to bring readers fully up to dateNew size and format Whole book revised and restructured New chapters on knowledge management and on infection control in developing countries Extensive references for the numerous practices discussed