Empowering Nurse- Assignment

Running head: NURSING
INFECTION CONTROL (ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY)
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

NURSING1
Infection control has been described as a discipline, which is considered with the
prevention of healthcare, or nosocomial associated infection. Infection control has been stated
to be a practical section of epidemiology. This will the primary topic of discussion in this
paper. A nurse who specializes in the prevention of the spreading of infectious agents such as
bacteria and viruses.
This essay will first discuss a brief infection control background, followed by an
annotated bibliography of two papers (qualitative and quantitative) and finally concluding the
paper.
The background will consist of the evidence-based practices associated with infection
control and its importance in nursing. The search strategy will also be discussed accordingly
stating the sources of the collected pieces of literature. Inclusion and exclusion criteria will
also be discussed associated with the search strategy used for the annotated bibliography.
This is the structure of the paper discussing infection control associated with nursing care.
As a background of this study, it can be stated that an infection control nurse
specializes in the prevention of infectious agent spread. Bacteria and virus are the most
deadly infective pathogens, which spreads by nosocomial infections. According to a research
study, the prevention of dangerous outbreaks and epidemics has been found to be associated
with the roles of an infection control nurse (Kuhar et al., 2018). Storr et al., (2017) stated that
a large proportion of infection control strategies devised by nurses has resolved a large
number of cases of HAI (healthcare-associated infections). According to Suleyman and
Alangaden, (2016), infection control in various hospitals is responsible for the decrease in the
prevalence of fungal infections in acute patient care wards. Thus, it can be stated that the
infection control strategy has been used in various patient wards in the prevention of
nosocomial and hospital-acquired infections. Therefore it can be stated that the prevention of

NURSING2
nosocomial epidemic diseases is the primary causes for the establishment of infection control
inside a hospital.
Online database search strategy has been used for this paper since it is based on
existing research articles. CINAHL database was opened and journals associated with
infection control was searched for. Articles with primary data were collected in order to
increase the statistical significance of the annotated bibliography. The university library
(UWL) was also searched for books in order to gather information for the introductory part
about infection control. The search terms used for this paper was “Infection control”,
“Nurse”, “Hospitals”, “Acute patient wards”, “Qualitative” and “Quantitative”. These were
the search terms used for the annotated bibliography to be stated later, associated with
infection control. Papers no more than five years older (2015-2020) were used for the
annotated bibliography. Rest of the papers were excluded from the study. All other
prevention strategies have been excluded from the study, only infection control was kept as
the inclusion criteria. Both qualitative and quantitative research studies were included in the
search process. These are the overall inclusion and exclusion criteria for this study. The
primary reason for selecting these inclusion and exclusion criteria is to give the paper a
justified statistical significance and be directly linked to the topic. The next sections will
discuss the annotated bibliography of a qualitative and quantitative paper.
Newham, R. and Hudgell, L., 2015. Pressure-ulcer management and prevention in acute
and primary care. British Journal of Nursing, 24(Sup6), pp.S4-S11.
This is a qualitative study, which describes the practice of prevention and
management of pressure ulcers as a significant aspect of care. This study used a questionnaire
(open-ended questions) by using an online survey and interviews for the process of data