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Official Journal of the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Hospital and community-based infection control

Carolyn Walker and Scott Cameron

Australian Infection Control 3(3) 9 - 12
Published: 1998

Abstract

Although nurses have practised as public health professionals for decades, the role of the nurse epidemiologist is not widely recognised. These practitioners have a tiny voice in comparison with hospital-based nurses, which has put them at a dis-advantage in professional terms. This paper explores the similarities between the roles and tasks of the clinically-based infection control practitioner and the nurse epidemiologist in a public health unit. Such professionals, along with infectious disease physicians, epidemiologists and lab-oratory staff, constitute a public health team dedicated to the control of infectious diseases in both health-care establishments and the wider community.

https://doi.org/10.1071/HI98309

© Australian Infection Control Association 1998

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