Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032459441 ISBN 13: 9781032459448

Verlag: CRC Press, 2023

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This new book positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures.

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Paul Elliott

Paul commenced his initial nurse education in 1971 at Royal Air Force Hospital Ely, Cambridgeshire. Following this Paul undertook a number of post qualification courses. Following retirement from the Royal Air Force in 1985 Paul entered the National Health Service initially undertaking some further nurse education with the Burton upon Trent School of Nursing, Staffordshire. Following this he spent the next few years working in the accident and emergency/medical admissions settings before moving into higher education in 1991 with his current appointment being as a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing with Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent. Since entering higher education Paul’s primary research interests, publications and conference papers have centred around the psychosocial aspects of infection prevention and control.

Julie Storr

Julie is an MBA graduate and graduate nurse from the University of Manchester, where she also trained as a Health Visitor. She is co-founder and director at S3 Global and has worked internationally since 2005, predominantly as an expert with World Health Organisation (WHO) on the development, implementation and evaluation of initiatives in the field of patient safety, quality and infection prevention and control (IPC).

Annette Jeanes

Annette Jeanes is an independent Consultant Infection Control Nurse. She was the Infection Control lead at the Nightingale Hospital in London for the duration of the initial and subsequent London Covid-19 response. Prior to that Annette worked in the NHS as the Director of Infection Prevention & Control and Consultant Nurse Infection Control at University College London Hospitals. She has worked at several London hospitals in Infection Control, intensive care, infectious diseases, medicine and surgery. She has undertaken and published research in improving hand hygiene compliance and hospital cleaning.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032459441
• ISBN 13: 9781032459448
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
• Herausgeber: Elliott Paul, Storr Julie, Jeanes Annette
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar