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Name: Home Hygiene - CD Rom
Description:
Home Hygiene
Prevention of infection in the home

A training resource for carers and their trainers

Community Infection Control Nurses Network
International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene

Available in two formats: CD-ROM or A4 booklet(order separately)

Contents:

Introduction
Breaking the chain of infection using targeted hygiene
You can make a difference: Hand hygiene, General hygiene, Food hygiene
When there is more risk
Chemical disinfectants explained
Questions and answers

Plus

Participatory exercises
Application of NVQ standards

THE INFECTION CONTROL NURSES ASSOCIATION (ICNA)

The ICNA works with healthcare colleagues, professional bodies, industry,
government agencies and voluntary organisations to prevent and control infection.
It aims to advance the speciality of infection prevention and control through
education, professional development of its members and research and is at the
forefront of initiatives in hospitals and community settings to prevent and control
existing, re-emerging and new infections.

THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC FORUM ON HOME HYGIENE (IFH)

The IFH is a non-government organisation comprising public health scientists and
healthcare professionals. The mission of IFH is to raise awareness of the
fundamental role that home hygiene plays in preventing infectious disease, and
to develop and promote understanding of good hygiene practice based on current
scientific evidence including food hygiene, general hygiene, personal hygiene
and the care of "at risk" groups.

Authors

Janet Howard, Health Protection Nurse, Shropshire & Staffordshire Protection Unit

Sally Bloomfield, Consultant in hygiene & infections diseases, Chairman & Scientific Advisory Board Member IFH, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine

Viv Cleary, Public Health Specialist (Communicable Diseases) Lambeth PCT

Janet Fee, Community Infection Control Nurse, North & Mid Hampshire Health Protection Unit, Hampshire & Isle of Wight.

Janet McCulloch, Senior Infection Control Nurse, Health Protection Agency (South West)

Deborah Stevens, Research Scientist, Unilever Research & Development

How to order

Copies of the CD-Rom and Booklet can be obtained from:
www.icna.co.uk Click on'Publications', or mail to Fitwise, Drumcross Hall, Bathgate,EH48 4JT with your cheque payable to ICNA. Alternatively send a purchase order via
mail or email to [email protected]. Please phone 01506811077 if you have any queries.

Prices:

CD-Rom Members (all categories) �5 including p&p;
Non-members �10 including p&p;

Booklet: Members (all categories) �5 including p&p;
Non-members �10 including p&p;

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