Infection Control in Healthcare: Focus Areas and Strategies

LABORATORY
PORTFOLIO
INFECTION
CONTROL

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Identification of the focus areas and keywords use for studying chosen topic...........................3
Evaluation of the quality of sources............................................................................................4
Ability to search for the journal articles......................................................................................6
Ability to use the CSU Primo catalogue......................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-
associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an
essential part of the infrastructure of health care. Infection control is basically based on the five
basic domains that include maintaining adequate hand hygiene, wearing proper protective
equipments, injection safety, cleaning of environment and respiratory hygiene. Present report
will lay emphasis on communication skills required for health and medical sciences. Assignment
will also focus on able to demonstrate information, digital and academic literacy and numeracy
skills appropriate for health and medical sciences. It will also critique a scientific literature.
MAIN BODY
Identification of the focus areas and keywords use for studying chosen topic
Article 1: Infection-control update. (includes related articles) (Nursing Guide to Staying Safe,
part 2
Available from < https://primo.csu.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay?
vid=61CSU_INST:61CSU&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=gale_hrca1
5226138&lang=en&context=PC&adaptor=Primo%20Central&query=any,contains,INFECTION
%20CONTROL%20ARTICLES&offset=0>
Infection control is really necessary in order to protect the patient, health care staff and
nurses from spreading of contagious diseases. It has been analyzed that to control the infection, it
is really necessary for nurses and health care professionals to maintain hand hygiene and wear
PPE so that they can be prevented from the risk related to infection. It has been analyzed that
keywords that has been selected for the chosen topic includes infection, control, hand hygiene,
PPE, contagious disease, preventive measures and long term illness, occupational health. In this
article there are also various functions of the infection control practitioner that has been
evaluated like they are engaged in developing a reduction of risk plan so that the harmful
protocol does not spread. These practitioners are also been engaged in developing educational
tools so that safety and security can be provided to practitioners as well as health care staff.
Article 2: Infection prevention and control: Who is the judge, you or the guidelines?
Available from : < https://primo.csu.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay?
vid=61CSU_INST:61CSU&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=alma99101

3226206102357&lang=en&context=L&adaptor=Local%20Search
%20Engine&query=any,contains,INFECTION%20CONTROL%20ARTICLES&offset=0>
The focus are in this article is on assistance provided by nurses so that infection can be
preventive and also it improvise the health outcome of service users. It has also been analyzed
that the article focuses on the aspects of leadership that are really important for preventing the
risk and vulnerabilities related to infection. The article based on the topic was search by setting
the range. It was analyzed that the article older than 5 years were not being used in the research.
An only article that has been published in English Language has been used for the study. Article
has also provided with the details of one more focus area that includes that more in-depth
knowledge is required for analyzing the effectiveness of psychological skills that is been
required to control the infection. They keywords that are been used in order to search for this
article includes education, nurses, leadership, infection control and psychological skills.
Article 3: Australian Infection Control
Available from: < https://primo.csu.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay?
vid=61CSU_INST:61CSU&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=elsevier_sd
oi_10_1071_HI02036&lang=en&context=PC&adaptor=Primo
%20Central&query=any,contains,INFECTION%20CONTROL%20ARTICLES&offset=0>
The key words that have been used in the article are infection prevention and control,
HAI, IPC program, Hand hygiene, Antimicrobial resistance, IPC guideline, Surveillance,
Multimodal strategy. There area various strategies used by nurses to prevent the spread of
infection which has been discussed on the article. It includes that nurses must have knowledge
related to controlling the spread of infection in clinical care setting as well as community. This
strategy will help them in protecting those patients who are at high risk and vulnerable to have
infection. These strategies will help them in overcoming the service users from the risk of
contagious diseases.
Evaluation of the quality of sources
Ranking offerings: The decision to make use of both the articles was linked to the rank of both
the articles. Both the articles were effectively ranked so these were used in making the report.
Ranks have also helped in making better decisions.