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 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 has been updated to provide new chapters and new and updated exhibits and appendices, such as:

• Core Competencies
• Areas and Domains of Competency in Infection Prevention and Control
• Sample Position Description: Infection Prevention and Control Data Analyst
• Sample Position Description: Data Management Assistant
• Infection Control Education Plan
• Strategies to Promote Hand Hygiene in the Radiology Department
• Hazard Communication Program
• Infection Control for Bacterial Infections Caused by Drug-Resistant Organisms
• Updated Fact Sheets for Selected Diseases, Pathogens, and Infestations, including new fact sheets on:
  • Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
  • Ebola Viral Disease
  • Infectious Mononucleosis
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC)
  • Molluscum Contagiosum

Infection Control is authored by George Allen, PhD, CIC, CNOR, Director of Infection Control at Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn NY. Dr. Allen was recently presented with the 2010 APIC NY Chapter Infection Control Champion Award.