At the end of 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released long-awaited updates to its guidelines for prevention of transmission of tuberculosis (TB)—the first changes since 1994.
Do you have the resources you need to comply with the most recent TB guidelines?
Your first line of defense against tuberculosis
Whether you need to modify an existing TB infection control plan, or you’re building a program from scratch, The CDC’s Tuberculosis Guidelines: Key Strategies for Compliance will be your first resource in finding simple, to-the-point strategies for complying with the updates.
Written by an infection control professional, this easy-to-read reference book filters out the non-essential information from the guidelines, and cuts right to the issues that will affect you. It will save you valuable time by breaking down the updates into manageable, logical pieces and walking you, step-by-step, through the most critical changes.
Prevent the spread of TB across ALL healthcare settings
Staff and patient safety are the driving motivations behind the latest CDC updates to its TB guidelines. The CDC has shifted the focus of its prevention guidelines from concentrating only on hospitals. The guidelines now encompass healthcare settings having the potential for TB transmission, rather than focusing on a physical building.
These new areas of emphasis include:
- inpatient settings (patient rooms, emergency departments)
- outpatient settings (medical offices, ambulatory care centers)
- non-traditional facility-based settings (home-based healthcare, long-term care settings)
The CDC also has updated components of the tuberculosis infection control program, including
- risk assessment
- risk classification
- TB screening procedures
- problem evaluation and
- annual evaluation
In easy-to-understand language, The CDC’s Tuberculosis Guidelines: Key Strategies for Compliance covers the most challenging changes from 1994 until now, explains how they’ll affect your healthcare setting, and provides practical strategies on how to comply. Plus, a companion CD-ROM provides worksheets, forms, and checklists you can customize, print out, and distribute to your staff right away! Use these tools to help prevent the transmission of TB at your facility and stay in compliance with the CDC.
Don’t take risks with patient and staff safety—or with regulators! The most vital TB protection information you need is in this must-have resource.
Who needs this book?
The CDC’s Tuberculosis Guidelines: Key Strategies for Compliance is designed to help healthcare professionals in ALL settings comply with the updated guidelines and prevent the spread of TB among both patients and staff. This valuable book and CD-ROM set is a must-have resource for:
- infection control directors, nurses, and professionals
- safety officers and directors
- survey coordinators
- nurse managers
- practice managers
- respiratory care managers
- risk managers
- occupational safety and health managers
- healthcare and facility administrators
- practitioners
Here are a few of the comprehensive topics you’ll find covered in The CDC’s Tuberculosis Guidelines: Key Strategies for Compliance.
- Guidelines history and regulatory concerns
- Risk assessments and classification
- The guidelines and your IC program
- Annual assessments
- Education and training requirements
- Integration and implementation
- Cleaning equipment/rooms
- Managing infectious patients
Meet the Author
Renée Patterson, CSP, is the loss-control administrator for Tendercare/Michigan, Inc., the state’s largest long-term care provider. For the provider’s nursing homes, an assisted living center, and acute rehab hospital, she handles matters as wide ranging as loss prevention; employee, resident, and visitor safety; infection control policy; and corporate compliance and chart reviews for litigated claims. As a former infection control manager for a regional medical center, Patterson has created customer service and training materials, developed and maintained compliance programs, conducted epidemiologic studies and investigations, crafted bioterrorism response plans, and created infection control policies and procedures.
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