| Description |
x, 436 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Mosby's pocket guide series |
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Mosby's pocket guide series.
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| Contents |
1. Trends in Health Care: Implications for Infection Control Practice -- 2. The Role of Regulatory, Accreditation, and Professional Agencies -- 3. Reportable Diseases -- 4. Infection Control Resources -- 5. The Infectious Process: Body Defenses and Chain of Infection -- 6. Hand Washing: The Most Important Method of Prevention and Control -- 7. Isolation Precautions -- 8. Preventing and Managing Infections in Health Care Workers -- 9. Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing -- 10. Surgical Asepsis -- 11. Collecting Blood and Body Fluid Specimens -- 12. The Immunocompromised Patient -- 13. Surgical Procedures -- 14. Catheterization -- 15. Wound and Ostomy Management -- 16. Burn Care -- 17. Intravenous Techniques -- 18. Gastrointestinal Procedures -- 19. Dialysis -- 20. Respiratory Care -- 21. Obstetrical Procedures -- 22. Neonatal Procedures -- 23. Postmortem Care |
| Summary |
The Pocket Guide to Infection Prevention and Safe Practice contains the most current research-based recommendations for infection prevention and safe practice. The information in this text provides nurses and healthcare workers with readily accessible guidelines for preventing transmission of organisms during routine procedures, for handling significant employee exposure to infectious disease, and for determining when employees should be excluded from patient care |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cross infection -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Infection -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Nosocomial infections -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Nursing -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Cross Infection -- prevention & control.
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Infection Control -- methods.
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Nursing Care -- standards.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbook.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Schaffer, Susan D.
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| LC no. |
95032784 |
| ISBN |
0815175930 |
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