Infection Control Program Guide Global Edition

Learn useful, practical, and effective methods for handling the spread of infectious diseases throughout your facility Infection control professionals around the world are scrambling to prevent and contain the spread of communicable diseases, arguably the most pressing issue in healthcare today. Frontline medical staff and other clinicians need an infection control program they can put into place right now to protect patients and staff from such diseases as tuberculosis and methicillin-reistant Staphylococcus aureus. HC Pro is pleased to introduce The Infection Control Program Guide: Global Edition. In many parts of the world, healthcare facilities have not yet created infection control policies and procedures, or else they can be inconsistent. All over the globe, infection control professionals must act as teachers, trainers, and students. They must also write plans, educate staff, and ensure best practices. Guidelines and standards issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Joint Commission International help clinicians shape an infection control plan. But programs can vary from country to country. Infection control professionals in some countries lack protocols because there's simply no precedent. In other cases, IC programs falter because of funding or the lack of government regulations. Infection Control Program Guide: Global Edition streamlines the time-consuming process of creating an infection control program by providing you with all the necessary forms, policies, and tools you need to ensure a compliant infection control program. Best of all, once you implement a successful IC program, you'll have all the documentation you need to help obtain executive and administrative buy-in for your program. The Infection Control Program Guide: Global Edition is the best practice and compliance resource in one book. Save time with sample documents like these: Facility infection control plan Hand hygiene policy Infection control risk assessment guide to infection control and labs List of international infection control organizations Recommendation for inter-pandemic and pandemic alert periods Just like in the U.S., compliance is critical for an ICP director As an infection control professional you must write a plan, train staff, and serve on the infection control committee while ensuring that clinical infection control procedures are in place. For many healthcare workers, this can be an overwhelming and daunting task. This global edition of our U.S. best-seller gives you the tools you need to either start an IC program from scratch or refine your current program. Written by an infection control expert and consultant and reviewed by an internationally know epidemiologist, The Infection Control Program Guide: Global Edition will help both novice and veteran healthcare workers around the world create a program to identify the risks of acquisition and spread of infectious diseases in their facilities. About the Author Carol Shenold, RN, CIC, has worked in healthcare for more than 40 years, many of those spent in acute- and long-term care facilities. During her 14 years as an infection control professional, she specialized in performance improvement, utilization management, and risk management. She regularly writes about infection control topics, most recently serving as consulting editor on HCPro's The CDC's Tuberculosis Guidelines: Key Strategies for Compliance. About the Reviewer Ziad A Memish, MD, CIC, FRCPC, FACP, FIDSA, GCC, is the director for the Gulf Cooperation Council (states) Center for Infection Control and executive director for the infection prevention & control program at the Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs King Abdulaziz Medical City.