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Standard Precautions represent the minimum infection prevention measures that apply to all patient care. These evidence-based practices are designed to both protect healthcare personnel and prevent the spread of infections among patients. Ambulatory care facilities need to develop specific strategies to control the spread of transmissible diseases specific to their setting. This includes early detection and management of potentially infectious patients.

This site gives a general overview of infection control. It does not go into specifics but I liked it because it shares many links about many different aspects of infection control. I like that I can go to this page, get a general understanding and then have so many more links in one place for my access.

This video helps to understand what happens in the marrow and cells of someone going through a stem cell transplant. My dad went through this over the summer and he was healthy enough and his cancer cells were low enough that they could use his own stem cells for the transplant. It is amazing that the immune system can drop to undetectable during this process and a person not develop infection, but that was the case for my dad. He was only hospitalized and given 1 bag of plasma and 1 blood transfusion during his recovery and never had any infection. New treatments for cancer are being found all the time, but this disease seems to affect the majority of families.

Here is a short You Tube video on infection control in the hospital. It gives some scenarios and ways to handle the situations.

This website describes the precautions set by the CDC to help with infection control. It also has a diagram with pictures to inform you when certain precautions should be taken.

The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin word corona meaning crown, Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that infects the lungs

Most burns are minor injuries that occur at home or work. It is common to get a minor burn from hot water, a curling iron, or touching a hot stove. Home treatment is usually all that is needed for healing and to prevent other problems, such as infection.

I thought this website was really interesting, because it tells us what to expect for UE and LE surgeries. Hip replacement protocols are on here too (total, anterior, posterior). it also tells us what to look for like infection or swelling, or what modalities to use. I hope this is helpful or interesting to read about!

This site talks about burns in a pediatric setting. How to prevent, how to treat, and it discusses physical and emotional recovery.

Information related to hand washing and breaking the cycle of infectious agents

Video made by the CDC about infection control and saving lives

Universal Precautions are actions that you take to place a barrier between yourself and potentially infected body fluids. This fact sheet goes on to further show what you can do to keep yourself safe.