Practice Guidance for Healthcare Environmental Cleaning 4th Edition
Member: $350.00
Non-Member: $450.00
Practice Guidance is designed to help EVS healthcare professionals leverage best practices, tools, and resources to work towards standardized, safe patient care.
Product Details
A go-to resource that guides users through what takes place in each area of care, details why each area may be high-risk, and explains how to properly clean and disinfect each area and provides resources for cleaning, disinfecting, and safety in the healthcare environment.
Environmental services and infection prevention professionals gain an understanding of why specific practices and procedures are recommended.
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Practice Guidance for Healthcare Environmental Cleaning, 4th Edition is intended for:
- Environmental services leaders
- Infection prevention professionals
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- Foundations and principles of EVS, infection prevention and patient safety
- Infectious materials risk reduction strategies
- Cleaning and disinfection of patient rooms and specialty units (e.g. surgical areas, therapy areas, laboratory areas, common areas, storage areas)
- Quality assurance and improvement – monitoring strategies and technology, patient satisfaction, staff safety
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Hard copy and electronic copies are mutually exclusive – there are no refunds, changes, or switching between the two modalities. Please shop wisely based on your facility needs.
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What are healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)?
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are infections patients acquire while receiving care. Effective environmental cleaning and disinfection play a critical role in reducing pathogen transmission and supporting infection prevention efforts across healthcare settings.
How does the healthcare environment play a role in infection prevention?
The healthcare environment can contribute to the spread of pathogens when surfaces and high-touch areas are not cleaned and disinfected consistently. Practice Guidance provides evidence-based guidelines to help healthcare organizations strengthen environmental hygiene programs and support safer patient care.
What are evidence-based best practices for the healthcare environment?
Evidence-based best practices include standardized cleaning and disinfection processes, risk-based environmental hygiene strategies, quality monitoring, and adherence to regulatory and infection prevention recommendations. Practice Guidance serves as a comprehensive guide for healthcare cleaning and disinfection across a variety of care settings.
How do you properly clean ancillary and high-risk areas in healthcare facilities?
Different healthcare environments require specialized cleaning and disinfection protocols. Practice Guidance provides updated healthcare disinfection processes and recommendations for patient rooms, surgical areas, therapy spaces, laboratories, common areas, storage rooms, and other high-risk healthcare environments.
Which antibiotic-resistant bacteria are relevant to environmental hygiene best practices?
Environmental hygiene programs must be prepared to address a variety of pathogens, including antibiotic-resistant organisms. Practice Guidance outlines evidence-based approaches to environmental cleaning and infectious material risk reduction, helping organizations respond to emerging pathogens and infection prevention challenges.
Why Choose the Practice Guidance for Healthcare Environmental Cleaning, 4th Edition?
- A comprehensive guide for healthcare cleaning and environmental hygiene
- Evidence-based guidelines for hospitals and healthcare infection prevention
- Updated healthcare disinfection processes aligned with current best practices and regulatory expectations
- An affordable infection prevention and control guide designed for both new and experienced healthcare leaders
- A trusted resource for healthcare cleaning and disinfection that helps standardize processes, improve compliance, and strengthen patient safety outcomes
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