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What is the policy and procedure for infection control?
Summary. Infection control in the workplace aims to prevent pathogens being passed from one person to another. The foundation of good infection control is to assume that everyone is potentially infectious. Basic infection control procedures include hand washing and keeping the workplace clean.
What is infection control in NSW?
Summary This Policy Directive outlines practices required to minimise the risk of patients, visitors, volunteers and health workers (HWs) acquiring a healthcare associated infection, multi-resistant organism colonisation or communicable disease.
What is infection policy?
Infection Prevention and Control Policy This Policy Directive outlines practices required to minimise the risk of patients, visitors, volunteers and health workers acquiring a healthcare associated infection, multidrug-resistant organism colonisation or communicable disease.
What is the code of practice for infection control?
The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance (Department of Health, 2015) requires that all organisations which provide health and adult social care to have in place policies, procedures and protocols which minimise the risk of infection.
What is the purpose of infection control policy?
The aim of this policy is to minimise the risk of infection through the appropriate and timely isolation of a patient with a known or suspected pathogen or epidemiologically important organism.
What are standard precautions NSW Health?
Standard precautions involve the use of safe work practices and protective barriers including hand hygiene, appropriate use of gloves, use of facial protection, use of masks, use of gowns/aprons, appropriate device handling, appropriate handling of laundry, and incorporation of respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette.
What is infection control standards?
Standard precautions are a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes.
What are standard precautions NSW health?
Why are laws needed for infection control?
The purpose for putting polices and procedures in place for Infection Control is to ensure employees, clients and families are protected against infectious diseases and infections by providing guidelines for their investigation, control and prevention.
What are the principles of infection control?
These include standard precautions (hand hygiene, PPE, injection safety, environmental cleaning, and respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette) and transmission-based precautions (contact, droplet, and airborne).
What legislation must you follow in infection control?
The Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984.
What are the six chain of infection?
The six links in the chain are:
- The Infectious Agent – or the microorganism which has the ability to cause disease.
- The Reservoir or source of infection where the microorganism can live and thrive.
- The Portal of Exit from the reservoir.
- The Mode of Transmission.
- The Portal of Entry.
- The Susceptible Host.