Question

List some tasks and objectives on infection control in hospital setting ,explain why you included them.

Answer 1

Hospital infection control is an essential part of infectious disease management and must be strongly structured and professionally organised.

Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a authority that aims to prevent or control the spread of infections in healthcare facilities and the community.Standard Precautions are the minimum infection prevention practices that apply to all patient care ,Standard Precautions include —

1. Hand hygiene.
2. Use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, masks, eyewear).
3. Respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette.
4. Sharps safety (engineering and work practice controls).
5. Safe injection practices (i.e., aseptic technique for parenteral medications).
6. Sterile instruments and devices.
7. Clean and disinfected environmental surfaces.
8. Participate in care planning, when requested

# Objectives :-

• Understand the role and structure of infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes
• Be able to describe key indicators
• Know how to draft IPC policies and reports
• Understand the relationship between IPC and occupational health and safety programmes.
• trained hospital infection control practitioners.

Prevention, limitation and elimination of originated from hospital infections requires specific expertise not fully provided by clinical microbiologists or infectious disease consultants.

Therefore, application infection control physicians and nurses are now essential in the medical and operational management of our hospitals.