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Best Practices In Care: Guidelines & Standards
Implementation of best clinical and infection prevention practices are provided in guidelines and standards published by government organizations, professional associations, and quality groups. The following lists current recommendations, guidelines, suggested approaches, and guiding principles.
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
- 2011 Medical Device Reprocessing Summit
Access materials from the summit, where leaders met to identify, discuss, and formulate strategic initiatives and priorities to improve the safe reprocessing of reusable medical devices.
VISIT SITE - ST41 and ST79 Registry
ANSI/AAMI ST41, Ethylene oxide sterilization in health care facilities: Safety and effectiveness.
ANSI/AAMI ST79, Comprehensive guide to steam sterilization and sterility assurance in health care facilities.
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Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
- Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices, 2011 Edition
Contains the AORN approved standards, recommended practices, guidelines, and guidance statements. These comprehensive documents reflect the perioperative RN’s scope of professional responsibility and provide essential information for the delivery of safe patient care and a safe work environment.
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
- On-Demand Webinars
Access the Webinar Library which provides the most comprehensive healthcare-associated infection reduction strategies, education and training available.
VISIT WEBSITE - Clean Spaces, Healthy Patients
The Clean Spaces, Healthy Patients project delivers free online tools and resources for infection preventionists and environmental services professionals. Led by a multidisciplinary panel of clinical advisors, Clean Spaces, Healthy Patients brings together existing infection prevention and environmental services education and develops new companion resources.
VISIT WEBSITE - Guide to the Elimination of Methicillin-Resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) Transmission in Hospital Settings, 2nd Edition.
Provides current research findings, and updated “level of evidence” guidance are integrated into the best practice recommendations for MRSA surveillance, risk assessment, and the effective hospital MRSA management program.
DOWNLOAD - Guide to the Elimination of Orthopedic Surgical Site Infections.
The purpose of this guide, developed in collaboration with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), is to provide practical tools, strategies and resources for infection preventionists, care providers, surgical staff and quality improvement teams to use in their efforts to eliminate surgical site infections (SSIs) in orthopedic surgery.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of Acinetobacter baumannii.
This guide provides a summary of the latest studies, outbreak experiences, applicable guidelines and tools to manage and eliminate transmission of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR Ab) in healthcare settings.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of CAUTIs.
This guide is designed specifically to provide the necessary, evidence-based resources for the prevention of CAUTIs in acute and long-term-care settings.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of Clostridium difficile.
This invaluable resource provides comprehensive, evidence-based guidance for the elimination of CDI in healthcare settings.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of CRBSIs.
This guide provides step-by-step guidance to facilitate the bedside implementation of relevant clinical evidence and best practices for eliminating Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections (CRBSIs).
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of Hemodialysis.
The Guide to the Elimination of Infections in Hemodialysis provides evidence-based best practices for keeping hemodialysis patients safe from infection.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of Mediastinitis.
To help control the far-reaching clinical and financial impacts of mediastinitis, a comprehensive surgical site infection prevention program is imperative. This guide provides the necessary, evidence-based strategies to help infection preventionists in minimizing the risk of mediastinitis following cardiac surgery procedures.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of MRSA in Hospital Settings.
For decades, MRSA has been the most commonly identified multidrug-resistant pathogen throughout most of the world. Increasing incidence of MRSA is well-documented and continues to have a tremendous impact on patients and their families, as well as hospital bottom lines. This guide was created to address the impact of MRSA and establish policies for eliminating its transmission in hospital settings.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of MRSA in Hospital Settings - California Supplement.
This document was created to provide California-based hospitals and other healthcare providers with the most recent scientific and regulatory information on the prevention and control of MRSA. Efforts to eliminate MRSA transmission have been the focus of recent legislative activities in California, and planned requirements will require interpretation and guided implementation. New legislation may be introduced in 2009; this document will be updated to reflect any changes that may occur. Topics already addressed in APIC's MRSA Elimination Guide are not repeated in this document.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of MRSA in Long-Term-Care Setting.
This guide provides comprehensive, evidence-based strategies for eliminating MRSA across the entire spectrum of long-term care facilities.
DOWNLOAD - Guide To The Elimination of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.
To reduce risk of associated with Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, an effective facility-wide infection prevention program is critical. This guide provides evidence-based practice guidance to help eliminate VAP in the healthcare setting.
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American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
- Multi-Society Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes DOWNLOAD
Infection Prevention (UK)
- The Infection Prevention Society
The Infection Prevention Society publishes guidance and standards for nurses and other practitioners working in infection prevention and control.
VIEW NOW - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Infection: prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in primary and community care.
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Joint Commission Resources (JCR)
- Health Care-Associated Infections (HAI) Portal
This website is a rich resource of information related to health care-associated infections that is available from The Joint Commission enterprise.
VISIT WEBSITE - Learning Community.
JCR's learning community is an online, interactive, educational forum for today's busy healthcare professionals who are concerned about quality and patient safety, but who also need to balance and meet the day-to-day demands of their jobs as care providers.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Central Supply Module, Hospital eTool
This interactive site provides safety and health tips on topics such as Glutaraldehyde and Bloodborne Pathogens processing
VISIT SITE - Enforcement Procedures for the Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens
This instruction establishes policies and provides clarification to ensure uniform inspection procedures are followed when conducting inspections to enforce the Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.
READ MORE - Personal Protective Equipment Directives
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Society of Gastroenterology and Associates Inc. (SGNA)
- Standards and Practice Guidelines
SGNA has compiled multiple standards and guidelines that address issues directly affecting the practice of gastroenterology nursing.
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Urological Associations (UA)
- Clinical Guidelines
Access clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of various urological conditions.
VISIT WEBSITE - Joint AUA/ SUNA White Paper on Reprocessing of Flexible Cystoscopes
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US Department of Health and Human Services (UHHS)
- Hospital Compare displays rates for Process of Care measures that show whether or not hospitals provide some of the care that is recommended for patients being treated for a heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, asthma (children only) or patients having surgery.
VISIT SITE - Partnering To Heal is a computer-based, interactive learning tool for clinicians, health professional students, and patient advocates. The training highlights effective communication about infection control practices and what it means to help create a “culture of safety” in healthcare institutions. Trainees follow five main characters and make decisions about preventing HAIs.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force
DOWNLOAD - Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care
This site provides a summary guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambulatory care) settings.
VIEW NOW - Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities.
Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
DOWNLOAD - Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities
Presents evidence-based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of patient-care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment. This document supercedes the relevant sections contained in the 1985 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Guideline for Handwashing and Environmental Control
DOWNLOAD - Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection
Presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s recommendations for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs), formerly called surgical wound infections. This two-part guideline updates and replaces previous guidelines
DOWNLOAD - Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings
Preventing infections will reduce the burden of MDROs in healthcare settings. Prevention of antimicrobial resistance depends on appropriate clinical practices that should be incorporated into all routine patient care.
DOWNLOAD - Proper Sequence for Donning Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Learn the correct order to put on and remove biological personal protective equipment (PPE).
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World Health Organization (WHO)
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Last Updated On: 22 May 2012 Release Number 2010-1.00
