Infection Control: A Practical Guide for Health Care Facilities is the one source that provides you with everything you need to implement a proper infection-control program in a wide variety of health care settings - and stay up to speed with developments on both the legal and medical sides.

This highly practical resource delivers:

A comprehensive - and valuable - overview of proper infection prevention, surveillance, and control activities in an easily retrievable format

Practical tools for effectively and efficiently administering an infection control program

Ready-to-use policies and procedures essential to the infection prevention and control function

Numerous related resources such as disease fact sheets, position descriptions, job-specific competency statements, and performance programs

Infection Control: A Practical Guide for Health Care Facilities supplies the practical tools and proven guidance that enable you to immediately:

Establish a new infection control program and properly manage an existing one

Stay completely up to date with national standards and relevant policies

Access proven solutions to common infection-control problems

Follow practical advice on daily, area-specific infection-control concerns (operating room, dialysis, etc.) from experienced infection control practitioners

Quickly and efficiently develop infection control job description and evaluation protocols

Infection Control: A Practical Guide for Health Care Facilities also includes a BONUS CD-ROM featuring many of the sample policies & procedures, forms, worksheets, checklists and other practical tools that are featured in the book