Guidelines

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

• CDCs Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings
• Disinfection and Sterilization
• Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
• Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings
• 2007 Guidelines for Isolation Precautions
• Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Healthcare Settings, 2006
• HICPAC Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009
• Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections, 2011
• Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: Central-Line Associated Blood Stream Infections
• Appendix: Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Patients: Central-Line associated Blood Stream Infections
• Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care
• Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients
• Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Oncology Settings
• Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories 6th Edition
• Environmental Cleaning Procedures
• Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning in Healthcare Facilities: In Resources-Limited Settings Version 2

NHSN

• NHSN Patient Safety Component Manual
• NHSN Annual Training
• Dialysis Component Training Course
• Long-term Care Facility Component Training
• Outpatient Procedure Component Training

One & Only Campaign

• One & Only Campaign
• Injection Safety Checklist
• The Impact of Unsafety Medical Injections in the U.S.
• Do you Provide Treatment for Patients with Cancer?
• Injection Safety: What Every Healthcare Provider Needs to Know
• Dangerous Misperceptions
• Single-Dose or Multi-Dose?

SHEA Compendiums

• Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
• Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
• Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
• Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and Non ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
• Strategies to prevent Clostridiodes difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
• SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
• Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
• SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene: 2022 Update

World Health Organization (WHO)

• World Hand Hygiene Day 2024
• Hand Hygiene Technical Reference Manual
• Your 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
• How to Handwash?
• How to Handrub?

The Joint Commission

• Standards

OSHA Healthcare Standards

• OSHA Healthcare Standards
• OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen 1910.1030
• Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention
• 29 CFR 1910.1030 Bloodborne Pathogen
• Federal Register: Bloodborne Pathogen

The Florida Department of Health

• Reportables List