Dr. Kaye and Dr. Dhor have assembled top experts to write about facility planning and management in Part I of their two issues devoted to Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare. Articles in this issue are devoted to: Building a Successful Infection Control Program: Key Components, Processes and Economics; Hand Hygiene Sterilization; High Level Disinfection and Environmental Cleaning; Environement of Care; Infection Control in Alternative Healthcare Settings (Long Term Care and Ambulatory); Antibiotic Stewardship; Outbreak Investigations Water Safety in Healthcare/Legionella in the Healthcare Setting; Construction and Renovation; Bloodborne and Body Fluid Exposures - prevention and management of Occupational Health Issues; and Informatics and Statistics in Infection Control. Part II is devoted to clinical management of infections.
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Infectious Disease physicians and anyone in the hospital setting will find this issue very useful, as state-of-the-art clinical reviews provide clinical management on these common and emerging infections.
In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Rachel Bender Ignacio and Rajesh T. Gandhi bring their considerable expertise to the topic of COVID-19 Infection.
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Nursing Care Plan 15.1 Care of the Dying Patient SCENARIO Mrs. Rodney is in the palliative care unit, actively dying from breast cancer with metastases. She is receiving pain medication, complains of thirst, and is expressing ...
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Historically, foam swabs have been found ineffective in the removal of plaque (Pearson & Hutton, 2002). Recently, evidence suggested that with trained technique, foam swabs are equivalent to toothbrushing in the mechanically ventilated ...
The introductory chapters (1-3) in this volume take as their starting point the elements of the Essential Packages presented in the overview chapters of each volume.