Best Practices in Care
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Implementation of best clinical and infection prevention practices are provided in guidelines and standards published by government organizations, professional associations, and quality groups.
Guidelines & Standards
American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC)
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- Competency in infection preventionView Site
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A conceptual approach to guide current and future practice
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
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ASC Quality Collaboration
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- Environmental Infection Prevention ToolkitView Site
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Includes three essential resources: Environmental Infection Control — What CMS Surveyors Are Looking For, Environmental Cleaning Policy and Procedure Template, Spills Policy and Procedure Template
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
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- On-Demand WebinarsView Site
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Access the Webinar Library which provides the most comprehensive healthcare-associated infection reduction strategies, education and training available.
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
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- 2011 Medical Device Reprocessing SummitView Site
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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.
- ST41 and ST79 RegistryView Site
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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.
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
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- Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices, 2014 EditionView Site
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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.
- Guidelines for the location of automatic endoscope reprocessorsView Site
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Determining whether the AER is located on the decontamination or the clean side of the SPD or the endoscopy suite reprocessing area will depend on the type of AER being used.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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- Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care SettingsView Site
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force in 2002. This is still the most current source of recommendations.
- "Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands" PosterRead More
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The CDC offers a hand hygiene reminder poster modeled after the British World War II motivational slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On" for reminding people in healthcare facilities to wash their hands.
- "1,000,000,000,000 germs can live in one gram of poop" PosterView Site
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The CDC offers a hand reminder hygiene poster for reminding people to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
- CDC Hand Hygiene Resource Web PageView Site
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The CDC offers complimentary interactive hand hygiene education and training, presented as a slide show, covering standard precautions, the importance of standard precautions, the importance of hand hygiene, concerns surrounding standard precautions and provider hand hygiene practices.
Infection Control Today (ICT)
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- Surface Disinfection Insights CenterView Site
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The Surface Disinfection Insights Center provides you with the information and the tools you need to help teach front line clinicians and environmental services personnel about proper cleaning and disinfection of the high touch objects and surfaces that can become contaminated very quickly. Tools are available on effective disinfection of both hard and soft surfaces in the healthcare environment.
- Infection Prevention Immersion CenterView Site
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Surface, hand and skin antisepsis is critical to the prevention and control of healthcare-acquired infections. This immersion center is designed to provide the latest information, tools, resources and guidance for evidence-based infection prevention practices in healthcare facilities.
Infection Prevention in the UK
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- Infection Control Nurses Association (ICNA)View Site
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Audit Tools for Monitoring Infection Control Guildeines within the Community Setting
- The Infection Prevention SocietyView Site
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The Infection Prevention Society publishes guidance and standards for nurses and other practitioners working in infection prevention and control.
- National Institute for Health and Clinical ExcellenceView Site
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Infection: prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in primary and community care.
- NICE PathwaysView Site
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Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
- National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in EnglandRead More
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The Department of Health's latest summary of evidence based infection prevnetion and control recommendations to ensure patient protection.
International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)
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- Surveillance of health care - associated infections around the worldView Site
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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- Central Supply Module, Hospital eToolView Site
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This interactive site provides safety and health tips on topics such as Glutaraldehyde and Bloodborne Pathogens processing
- Enforcement Procedures for the Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne PathogensView Site
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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.
- Personal Protective Equipment DirectivesView Site
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Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates Inc. (SGNA)
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- Standards and Practice GuidelinesView Site
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SGNA has compiled multiple standards and guidelines that address issues directly affecting the practice of gastroenterology nursing.
- Guideline for the Use of High Level Disinfectants and Sterilants for Reprocessing of Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes (2011)View Site
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- Statement on Reprocessing of Water Bottles Used During Endoscopy (2011)View Site
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- Statement on Reprocessing of Endoscopic Accessories and Valves (2011)View Site
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- Standard of Infection Control in Reprocessing of Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes (2012)View Site
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The Joint Commission
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- Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence: Overcoming the ChallengesView Site
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The Joint Commission offers a comprehensive monograph on measuring hand hygiene compliance. The 10-chaper work covers foundations for hand hygiene measurement, developing measurements strategies, observing adherence to hand hygiene guidelines, measuring product use, conducting surveys, assessing the thoroughness of hand hygiene and related aspects, international hand hygiene improvement tools and efforts, displaying and interpreting hand hygiene data for maximum effectiveness, factors contributing to hand hygiene improvement and resources for measurement and improvement.
- Health Care-Associated Infections (HAI) PortalView Site
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This website is a rich resource of information related to health care-associated infections that is available from The Joint Commission enterprise.
- Learning Community.View Site
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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.
- Improving Patient and Worker Safety: Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and InnovationView Site
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This monograph is intended to stimulate greater awareness of the potential synergies between patient and worker health and safety activities.
- Improving America's HospitalsView Site
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The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety
Urological Associations (UA)
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US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
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- Hospital CompareView Site
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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.
- Partnering To HealView Site
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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.
- Prevention of Healthcare–Associated Infections: Revisiting the State of the ScienceView Site
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Provides strategies to increase adherence to preventive interventions and/or reduce infection rates for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), surgical site infections (SSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)
- Patient Safety Tool: Infection Prevention Education for ASCsView Site
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These training modules is designed to help prevent future outbreaks and educate clinicians on preventing HAIs in ambulatory surgery centers (ASC).
World Health Organization (WHO)
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- Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in HealthcareView Site
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The World Health Organization report contains information on healthcare-associated infections, models of transmission by hands, a review of methods for hand hygiene, recommended methods for hand hygiene, behavioral considerations for improving hand hygiene compliance and a review of potential barriers to hand hygiene.
- Guide to ImplementationView Site
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Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy
- How to Hand Wash PosterView Site
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The WHO offers a poster detailing hand washing protocol, complete with diagrams.
- How to Hand Rub PosterView Site
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The WHO offers a poster detailing hand sanitizing protocol with alcohol-based sanitizer, complete with diagrams.
Worldwide Gastrointestinal Society
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- British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Endoscopy CommitteeRead More
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- ESGE and ESGENA Guideline Committee of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and the European Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Nurses and Associates (ESGENA)Read More
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- Gastroenterological Society of AustraliaRead More
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- Japanese Gastroenterological Endoscopy Technicians SocietyRead More
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- Multi-society Guidline for Reproessing Flexible Gastrointestinal EndoscopesRead More
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- Minnesota Department of HealthView Site
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