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Total Quality Management in Health Care

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Records and Reports: Documentation in Nursing Practice

Mission, Vision, Values, Objectives and Philosophy of an Organization

Material Management: Planning and Procurement

Material Management: ABC, VED, HML Analysis

Planning Equipments and Supplies in Hospitals

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Trends in Nursing Informatics

Infection Control Resources

Nursing Standards

World Health Reports from World Health Organization

• Swine Flue Information Page- MOH& FW India

• Swine Flu Clinical management Protocol and Infection Control Guidelines: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare-India

• Standard Precautions for Infection Control

• Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection Control Guidelines from California department of Health

• Clarification on the use of masks by health-care workers in pandemic settings - in WHO global influenza preparedness plan

• Aide-Memoire -Infection control recommendations for avian influenza in health-care facilities

• Hospital Infection Control Society of India 

WHO on Infection Control

• Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 guidance documents

• Global Alert and Response Publications 

• Global Patient Safety Challenge

• Patient safety 

• Infection prevention and control in health care

• Injection safety 

• Infection control (Western Pacific Region) 

• Hand hygiene promotional video

• Global priorities for patient safety research

CDC Guidelines & Other Articles

• Infection Control Home

• Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008

• Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organism 2006

• Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia, 2003

• Environmental Infection Control in Healthcare Facilities, 2003

• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings, 2002

• Prevention of Intravascular Device-Related Infections, 2002

• Prevention of Surgical Site Infections, 1999

• Prevention of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections, 1981

• Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis - 2001

• Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel - 1998

• CDC Guidelines for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Pneumonia

• CDC Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003 

• CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings June, 2007

• he Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. Hospitals and the Benefits of Prevention 2009 

• Questions and Answers about Healthcare-Associated Infections from CDC

• Template for State Healthcare Associated Infections Plans

epic (evidence based practice in infection control) fromRichard Wells Research Centre at Thames Valley University

• Developing national evidence-based guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated infections in NHS Hospitals 1999-200

• Supporting NHS Trusts to implement national guidance for  preventing healthcare-associated infections 2003-2005

• Updating the Phase 1 Guidelines  2004-2005

• Developing national evidence-based guidelines for preventing HAI in primary and community care services   2001-2003

•  A National Review of the Role and Responsibilities of Community Infection Control Nurses (CICN) and Communicable Disease Control Nurses (CDCN) in England 2001-2002

• Enhancing the Evidence-base for Infection Prevention and Control Practices in the United Kingdom (CHART)   2003-2006

• A comparison of international practices in the management and control of healthcare-association infections 2003-2004

• Systematic review of interventions to prevent the transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)  in hospital  2004-2005

• Updated National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England

Free CE articles from Infection Control Resource (Published quarterly by Saxe Healthcare Communications)

• Persistence of microorganisms on common hospital surfaces:Strategies to control their dissemination, Misuse of prefilled flush syringes and Implications for medication errors and contamination

• Community-based sharps disposal programs, and  Preventing needlestick injuries in blood collection

• Flushing vascular access catheters and Risks for infection transmission

• Phlebotomy: Must it be a high-risk procedure? and Sharps containers: to reuse or not to reuse—that is the question.

• Active and Passive Technology in Sharps Safety and Managing Medical Waste

• Transmission of Infection with Multi-Dose Vials and Medication Errors

• Implementation of Needlestick Safety & Prevention Act in Long-Term care (renewal)and Intensive Care: Sharps injury in the ICU

• Adverse reactions to latex in urology and Encrustation on indwelling urinary catheters

• Engineering out the risk of Infection and Silver as a Healthcare Antisepsis

• Management of infection in patients with moderate to severe burns and Infection Control in the ICU

• Points of Contention in Sharps Injury Prevention and Sharps Management in the ER

• Prevention and treatment of surgical site infections and Managing tubes and drains: Considerations for IC

• Phlebotomy: A necessary high-risk procedure and Safer sharps in the OR

• A decade of needlestick prevention and Needlestick prevention in patients with diabetes mellitus

• Failure to Thrive in Wounds

• Implementing a sharps-injury prevention program and Needlesticks and other sharp-object injury prevention