Infection prevention: coordinating the community response to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (17) ◽  
pp. 1008-1009
Author(s):  
Sue Rees
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Health Board ◽  
Community Infection

Sue Rees, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Community Infection Prevention, Hywel Dda University Health Board ( [email protected] ), was runner up in the Infection Prevention Nurse of the Year category at the BJN Awards 2021

Hospital and community infection prevention and control (IPC)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Shears ◽  
Andrea Ledgerton ◽  
Rita Huyton
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Infection Surveillance ◽  
And Control ◽  
Community Infection

This chapter outlines the key principles of infection prevention and control (IPC) in both hospital and community settings. This includes understanding the structures surrounding infection prevention and control in these two different environments. It outlines some of the practical components including hand hygiene, infection surveillance, personal protective equipment, decontamination, and policies and guidelines. The chapter also covers the investigation and management of clusters/outbreak, and provides an outline of situations that require local health protection team input. Finally, the interface between community and hospital IPC is discussed, along with the importance of providing a seamless IPC service in all geographical areas.

Informing the Future – a review of nursing roles and responsibilities in community infection control (part two)

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loveday HP ◽  
Harper PJ ◽  
Mulhall A ◽  
Pellowe C ◽  
Howard J ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Future ◽  
Nursing Roles ◽  
And Control ◽  
Community Infection ◽  
Control Part

T his article is the second summarising the main findings and conclusions of the review of the role(s) and responsibilities of infection prevention and control nurses (IPCN) commissioned by the Department of Health (England) in 2000. It describes the activities that form the core work of IPCN, discusses the strengths and constraints of the current role and makes suggestions for the future development of IPCN roles within the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Primary Care Trusts (PCT).

Rapid Test Has Its Place in GBS Infection Prevention

Ob Gyn News ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (21) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
SHARON WORCESTER
Keyword(s):  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Rapid Test

Unknown and Under-Researched: The Anatomy of Drinking Under Control Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Harald Klingemann ◽  
Justyna Klingemann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract. Introduction: While alcohol treatment predominantly focuses on abstinence, drug treatment objectives include a variety of outcomes related to consumption and quality of life. Consequently harm reduction programs tackling psychoactive substances are well documented and accepted by practitioners, whereas harm reduction programs tackling alcohol are under-researched and met with resistance. Method: The paper is mainly based on key-person interviews with eight program providers conducted in Switzerland in 2009 and up-dated in 2015, and the analysis of reports and mission statements to establish an inventory and description of drinking under control programs (DUCPs). A recent twin program in Amsterdam and Essen was included to exemplify conditions impeding their implementation. Firstly, a typology based on the type of alcohol management, the provided support and admission criteria is developed, complemented by a detailed description of their functioning in practice. Secondly, the case studies are analyzed in terms of factors promoting and impeding the implementation of DUCPs and efforts of legitimize them and assess their success. Results: Residential and non-residential DUCPs show high diversity and pursue individualized approaches as the detailed case descriptions exemplify. Different modalities of proactively providing and including alcohol consumption are conceptualized in a wider framework of program objectives, including among others, quality of life and harm reduction. Typically DUCPs represent an effort to achieve public or institutional order. Their implementation and success are contingent upon their location, media response, type of alcohol management and the response of other substance-oriented stake holders in the treatment system. The legitimization of DUCPs is hampered by the lack of evaluation studies. DUCPs rely mostly – also because of limited resources – on rudimentary self-evaluations and attribute little importance to data collection exercises. Conclusions: Challenges for participants are underestimated and standard evaluation methodologies tend to be incompatible with the rationale and operational objectives of DUCPs. Program-sensitive multimethod approaches enabled by sufficient financing for monitoring and accompanying research is needed to improve the practice-oriented implementation of DUCPs. Barriers for these programs include assumptions that ‘alcohol-assisted’ help abandons hope for recovery and community response to DUCPs as locally unwanted institutions (‘not in my backyard’) fuelled by stigmatization.

«Wie ein ANP-Team laufen lernt» – Herausforderungen und Chancen von ANP-Teams am Universitätskinderspital Zürich

Pflege ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ullmann-Bremi ◽  
Anna-Barbara Schlüer ◽  
Gabriela Finkbeiner ◽  
Yvonne Huber
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Clinical Nurse Specialist ◽  
Nurse Specialist ◽  
Advanced Nursing Practice ◽  
Clinical Nurse

Im angloamerikanischen und nordeuropäischen Raum wurden verschiedene ANP-Einzelrollen entwickelt, unter anderem die der Clinical Nurse Specialist und der Nurse Practitioner. Diese universitär ausgebildeten Pflegespezialisten sind in der Schweiz weiterhin sehr rar. Um vor diesem Hintergrund die Praxis dennoch nachhaltig weiterentwickeln zu können, wurden in den letzten acht Jahren im Kinderspital Zürich kontinuierlich Advanced-Nursing-Practice-Teams (ANP-Teams) aufgebaut. Dieser Ansatz bewährte sich durch gezielte und angemessene Leistungserbringung in hochkomplexen Situationen. In diesem Artikel wird die Zusammensetzung der ANP-Teams diskutiert, wobei der Personalmix einen Schlüsselfaktor darstellt. Unterstützende Elemente stellen dabei sowohl die Aufgabendefinition als auch Aufgabenteilung in Klinik- und Konzeptteams dar. Die ANP-Teams arbeiten motiviert und zielgerichtet, sie integrieren Pflegende verschiedenster Erfahrungs- und Ausbildungsniveaus, wodurch gegenseitiges Lernen gefördert wird.

Advanced Nursing Practice in Großbritannien – eine persönliche Schilderung

Pflege ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Elke Keinath
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Advanced Nursing Practice

Im Artikel werden persönliche Erfahrungen als Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in der Thoraxchirurgie im National Health Service (NHS) in Großbritannien geschildert. Die tägliche Routine wurde von sieben Kompetenzdomänen bestimmt, nämlich: Management des Gesundheits- und Krankheitszustandes des Patienten, Beziehungen zwischen Pflegeperson und Patient, Lehren und Unterrichten, professionelle Rolle, Leitung und Führung innerhalb der Patientenversorgung, Qualitätsmanagement sowie kulturelle und spirituelle Kompetenzen. Diese Elemente wurden durch die Zusatzqualifikation, selbstständig Medikamente verschreiben und verordnen zu dürfen, erweitert, was dazu beitrug, eine nahtlose Erbringung von Pflege- und Serviceleistungen zu gewähren. Die Position wurde zur zentralen Anlaufstelle im multi-professionellen Team und stellte eine kontinuierliche Weiterführung der Pflege von Patienten und ihren Familien sicher – auch über Krankenhausgrenzen hinweg.

Cultural perspectives on suicide from a rural Athabascan Alaska Native community: Wellness teams as a strengths-based community response.

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. de Schweinitz ◽  
Cyndi Nation ◽  
Christopher R. DeCou ◽  
Tracy J. Stewart ◽  
James Allen
Keyword(s):  
Alaska Native ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Community Wellness
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