What Makes Infection Control in Nursing Homes Unique?

Abstract

In past years Infection Control in nursing homes had little, if any emphasis, but fortunately it is now quite different due to the greatly improved standard of care. This improvement in care has arisen out of the regular inspections of the homes by the Commonwealth Standard Monitoring Teams as well as the need to keep up our bed occupancy. I, as an Educator and Infection Control Practitioner have found, that although the infection control principles remain unchanged, the way that they are implemented is different from that of the acute hospital setting.