Essentials of Nursing Practice
Second Edition
Chapter 22: Infection prevention and control (IPC)
Journal Article 1: This article describes how final-year nursing students and specialist IPC nurses verbalised their hand hygiene decision-making while working through clinical scenarios on a computer, to understand what factors they were taking into account in choosing to use hand-washing or alcohol-based hand-rub/gel or to wear gloves.
Journal Article 2: This article investigates the possibility of employing a sustainable ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ philosophy in the management of waste within healthcare settings.