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WFUHS Clinical Safety and Infection Control

Our Mission

• Broaden awareness to communicable diseases
• Establish guidelines for preventing exposure in a clinical setting.
• Develop, teach and evaluate infection control educational programs.
• Design and conduct programs to monitor sterilization and disinfection activities.

Physician Practices

Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP):  A Primer
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
PPE Usage Guide
Latex Allergies
Latex-Nitrile Glove Comparison
Safer Sharp Devices
Transporting Biologicals

Isolation Procedures

• WFUP Isolation Precautions Quick Reference
• Airborne Infection Isolation Precautions
• Contact Precautions
• Contact Precautions-Special Enteric
• Droplet Precautions
• Protective Precautions
• Special Airborne/Contact Precautions
  

Infection Control

Resistant Organism Precautions
TB (Tuberculosis) 
MRSA (Staph Infection)
Hepatitus B
Employee Health/Infection Control, Routine and post-communicable disease exposure evaluation
Exposure Control Plan - BBP (WFBH)
Exposure Control Plan - BBP (WFSM)

Resources

NIOSH Alert Preventing Needlestick Injuries in Health Care Settings