Infection Control manual


	Infection Control Manual ( revision update)
Section Number	Section Title	Date Revised/Created	Date Reviewed

	SECTION 1: BASIC INFECTION CONTROL PREVENTION STRATEGIES
1.1	Standard and Transmission Based Precautions	09/07
1.2	Hand Hygiene Policy	12/06

	SECTION 2: ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATION
2.1	Essential Communication	02/08

	SECTION 3: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH POLICIES
3.1	HCW screening	09/07
3.2	Employees with Infections		09/07
3.2a	Table of Illnesses/Infections and Related Work Restriction		09/07
3.3	Management of Health Care Worker Exposure to Blood and body Substances		10/07

	SECTION 4 UCSF MEDICAL CENTER-WIDE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
4.1	Immuno-suppressed Patients
4.2	Human Prion Disease (10/08 scheduled revsion pending release of CDC guideline)	10/05
4.3	Patient Visitors		07/07
4.4	Patient Owned Pet Visitation		09/08
4.5	Cystic Fibrosis
4.6	Active Surveillance Testing (AST) for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

	SECTION 5: ENVIRONMENT
5.1	Infection Control Guidelines for construction	08/09	12/06
5.1a	Infection Risk Assessment Checklist Form	08/09	12/06
5.1b	Infection Control Dust Mitigation Training Syllabus	08/09	12/06
5.1c	Infection Control Pre Construction Survey Form	08/09	12/06
5.1d	Dust Mitigation Checklist Exterior Projects	08/09	12/06
5.1e	Air Sampling Request and Report Form	08/09	12/06
5.1f	D & C Project Daily Checklist Form	08/09	12/06
5.1g	Facilities Project Daily Checklist	08/09
5.2	Waste Management	09/07
5.3	Toy Cleaning	11/07
5.4	Tissue Banks	11/05	04/07

	SECTION 6 DISINFECTION, STERILIZATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING (see note 2 )
6.1	Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization of Patient Care Equipment	10/06
6.2	Processing of Inaminate Objects in the Medical Center Setting
6.2a	Process Selection for High Level Disninfection/Sterilization

	SECTION 7: EXPOSURE RESPONSE
7.1	Communicable Disease Exposure Follow-up	09/07
7.2	Outbreak Policy	09/07
7.3	Bacterial Meningitis-Under revision
7.4	Follow-up of Patient Visitor Exposure to Body Substances	11/07
7.5	Pediculosis and Scabies	11/07
7.6	Management of Pertussis Parapertussis-Under Revision
7.7	Rubella/Measles-Under Revision
7.8	Tuberculosis	07/07
7.9	Varicella-Under Revision

	SECTION 8: PROGRAM AND ADMINISTRATION
8.1	HEIC Department Philosophy	05/07
8.2	Scope of Service	05/07
8.3	Departmental Policy-Development and Revision	05/07
8.4	Infection Control Composition and Function	05/07
8.5	Infectious Disease Surveillance	05/07
8.6	Criteria For Defining Hospital-Associated Infections	05/07

Note 1:If you are looking for a policy that was formerly posted but no longer available or being revised, please contact HEIC at 415.353.4343 or email the Web Administrator.

Note 2: Only HEIC Policies are located here. Other Sterile Processing policies can be located on the Sterile Processing page located on the Materiel Services Website.