Precautions

• Infection Control Guidelines: Standard, Contact, Airborne and Droplet Precautions
• CDC Standard Precautions Page
• MRSA and soft tissue infection guide for medical assistants and nurses.

Guidelines

• Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Foot Care Settings 

Injection Safety

• CDC injection safety page.
• One and only campaign.

Hand Hygiene

• Hand Hygiene information for Healthcare Providers
• Six-Step Hand-Washing Technique Found Most Effective for Reducing Bacteria (Study to Compare CDC and WHO methods)
• Wash Your Handsington Campaign

Environmental Cleaning

• Quick Reference Information for Healthcare Providers
• Guide to Sterilization and Disinfection of Instruments, Equipment Surfaces

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• How to Use Personal Protective Equipment
• How to Properly Put on and Take Off PPE (CDC)
• Do’s & Don’ts for Wearing Gloves in the Healthcare Environment (APIC)

Assisted living and long-term care

• Norovirus/vomiting/diarrhea outbreaks—Know your facility’s normal gastrointestinal illness rate. This will help you quickly identify outbreaks. Use this toolkit if you suspect an outbreak.
• Flu outbreaks—Monitor flu-like illness Oct. 1 through April 30. Use this tool to promptly and effectively respond to an outbreak.
• Assisted living flu outbreaks—Congregate living facilities must provide a safe living environment. Use this tool to quickly identify and control flu outbreaks.

Patient materials

• Moving to a hospital or skilled nursing facility—what to expect when you have CRE.

Surveillance

• Preventing Healthcare-associated Infections (CDC)

Resources

• Healthcare associated infections (CDC)
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
  • APIC Puget Sound