Prevent Infections with Isolation Precautions

A lot can change in 10 years . . . including isolation requirements.

The CDC’s new isolation guidance will profoundly affect how infection control programs in many healthcare settings implement isolation precautions.

When the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the first major changes to its isolation guidelines since 1996, it did so with the stated goal of addressing important infection control (IC) implications that were lacking in previous guidelines. These are the first isolation guidelines to offer complete coverage of protocol for hospitals, long-term care facilities, home care agencies, and ambulatory care centers. You’re now required to know about

• The newest category of isolation – the protective environment—and how you can compile your own PE program
• How the  epidemiology of multidrug resistant organisms informs your measures for preventions
• How to spot, contain, and control powerful strains of  Clostridium difficile,  vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and community-acquired MRSA, among others

It’s your responsibility to understand and implement the revised recommendations—and HCPro is here to guide you through. Introducing Prevent Infections with Isolation Precautions: Strategies for the CDC Guidelines.

Good intentions aren’t enough—you need documentation.

The CDC says “resources must be made available for infection control.” That includes expert consultation, data analysis, and adherence monitoring. Author Gail Bennett, RN, MSN, CIC, a nationally known IC expert and consultant, calls upon practical experience to bring you all the forms, tips, and tools you need to create your own isolation precautions resource center. With such forms as a sample illustration of a PE plan, you’ll be able to meet the needs of your facility while following the CDC’s recommendations—and do so right away.

Prevent Infections with Isolation Precautions includes all of these forms, plus it offers timely updates on new guidance—from disease transmission and prevention, to effectiveness of isolation and cough etiquette. You’ll benefit from:

• Easy-to-understand explanations and expert analysis of the new guidelines
• User-friendly sets of information, organized by chapter, for quick-reference
• A detailed isolation checklist to assist you in assessing your organization’s compliance with the CDC isolation recommendations.
• Tools and policies to help infection control programs monitor hand-hygiene compliance

Compliance is crucial to survey success and infection control

All affected facilities must demonstrate not only that they’re incorporating the new guidelines, but that they’re also ensuring consistent compliance.

Prevent Isolation Precautions will save you time by providing all the tools you need to assess and monitor your facilities compliance with the isolation guidelines, getting you up to speed and ensuring successful compliance right away. Best of all, all of these tools are included in the bonus CD-ROM and are easy to modify, print, and fill out.

About the author

Gail Bennett, RN, MSN, CIC, is a nationally known infection control expert with over 25 years experience in the field. She is executive director of ICP Associates, LLC, and serves as a consultant to hospitals, nursing homes, and industry professionals, and provides presentations for professional associations. Bennett also consults with IC programs in 259 healthcare facilities through their corporate offices, and is the author of IC manuals for hospitals and nursing homes, and several journals. Her consulting experience includes covering the topics of IC, performance improvement, Joint Commission survey preparation, and management.

Take the confusion out of these substantial new regulatory changes and help ensure that come survey time your facility, no matter its setting, makes the grade with Prevent Infections with Isolation Precautions. Order your copy today!

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