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.

Lee, K. (2013). Student and infection prevention and control nurses’ hand hygiene decision making in simulated clinical scenarios: A qualitative research study of hand washing, gel and glove use choices. Journal of Infection Prevention, 14(3), 96–103.

Journal Article 2: This article investigates the possibility of employing a sustainable ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ philosophy in the management of waste within healthcare settings.

Nichols, A., Grose, G., Bennalick, M., & Richardson, J. (2012). Sustainable healthcare waste management: A qualitative investigation of its feasibility within a county in the south west of England. Journal of Infection Prevention, 14(2), 60–64.