Infection Prevention & Control

The only evidence-based guidelines for perioperative teams approved by the ECRI Guideline Trust.

Standards, guidelines and position statements for perioperative registered nurses. Click on "My Library" (right hand under Quick Links), select ORNAC, click again to select English ed. and VIEW ONLINE.

An indispensable reference for pediatricians and pediatric infectious disease specialists as well as family & emergency medicine physicians.

Streamline disease recognition and clinical decision-making with hundreds of finely detailed color images, combined with updated step-by-step guidelines. Concise text descriptions walk the reader through the diagnosis, evaluation, and management essentials for each condition.

Brought to you by the expert editor team from Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, this handbook provides a digestible summary of the 245 chapters contained within the parent text. It distills the essential, up-to-date, practical information available in infectious disease and organizes it by body system. Covers hot topics in infectious disease, such as Hepatitis B and C, Influenza, Measles, Papillomavirus, HIV, MERS, and C. difficile.

Understand the clinically relevant aspects of microbiology with this student-acclaimed, full-color review - bolstered by case studies and hundreds of USMLE®-style review questions. Concise and fully up to date, this trusted classic links fundamental principles with the diagnosis and treatment of microbial infections.

This book aims to fill knowledge gap among healthcare workers about Clostridium difficile (also known as C.difficile and CDI) among aging patients, especially those in long-term care facilities (LTCFs).  Written by experts in infectious diseases and geriatric medicine, this book provides comprehensive information on all aspects of CDI pertaining to LTCF settings, including epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, management and the unique challenges faced by LTCFs with regards to the CDI problem.

Master the principles of clinical infectious disease in 30 days or less!  Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course, Fourth Edition provides busy physicians, students, nurse practitioners, and PAs with the kind of concise overview they need to understand, diagnose, and treat common infectious diseases safely and effectively. 

Learn about infections in the context of major body systems and understand why these are environments in which microbes can establish themselves, flourish, and give rise to pathologic changes.

A co-publication of Joint Commission International and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), this is an essential infection prevention and control (IPC) resource for health care organizations. This fully updated edition provides thorough analysis of JCI's and other IPC requirements, as well as case studies, tips, and tools for increasing IPC compliance and patient safety.

Discover a practical, multidisciplinary approach to the prevention and management of nosocomial infection. Examining every type of nosocomial infection as well as issues relating to surveillance, prevention, and control of these infections in patients and in healthcare workers.

This in-depth reference presents a comprehensive approach to developing a facility-based infection prevention program, including numerous practical tips and clinical advice for successful implementation.

This resource is a quick reference for the many diagnostic tests most frequently used by infection preventionsists (IPs). Information is presented in a wide variety of easy-to-use descriptions, summaries, and tables.

The best practice expert guidance on infection prevention for adult and pediatric patients in all types of healthcare facilities, from community hospitals and academic institutions, to long-term care and resource limited settings.

This handy reference describes clinically important bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and agents of bioterrorism.