Beating the bug.
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Computer-Assisted Instruction↗
Biomedical subjects
Carol Pellowe
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Informing the future: 2. Developing the role of community IPCNs.
This paper is the second in a two-part series summarising the main findings and conclusions of a review of the roles and responsibilities of infection prevention and control nurses commissioned by the Department of Health. It describes the core work of IPCNs, discusses the strengths and constraints of the current role and makes suggestions for future development.
Communicable Disease Control↗
Informing the future: 1. A review of nursing roles and responsibilities in community infection control.
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Communicable Disease Control↗
Health care-associated infections in primary and community care.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence recently published guidelines for preventing health care-associated infections (HAIs) in primary and community care (NICE, 2003). These were commissioned by the Department of Health and NICE to complement previously published guidelines for preventing HAIs in hospitals (Pratt et al, 2001). The new guidelines aim to facilitate a seamless approach to using the best evidence for infection prevention practices as patients transfer between primary and secondary health care services. This article discusses the need for the guidelines and describes the methods used to develop them.
Benchmarking↗
Preventing health care-associated infections during enteral feeding.
IN the late 1980s, enteral feeding became common practice in hospitals for patients who were unable to feed themselves. It was therefore inevitable that those requiring long-term artificial feeding--that is, for more than 30 days--would continue this practice at home.
Enteral Nutrition↗
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections: primary care guidelines.
In primary and community health care settings, long-term (> 28 days) urinary catheterisation (LTC) is most commonly used in managing older people and those with neurological conditions. Studies suggest that in the UK LTC is used in 0.5 per cent of people aged 75 or over (Kohler-Ockmore and Feneley, 1996) and in four per cent of people receiving domiciliary care (Getliffe and Mulhall, 1991). Most health-care associated infections (HAIs) are caused by indwelling urinary catheters (Stamm, 1998). Many of these infections are serious and lead to significant morbidity. In acute care facilities, 20-30 per cent of catheterised patients develop bacteriuria, of whom two to six per cent develop symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTIs) (Stamm, 1998).
Anti-Infective Agents, Urinary↗