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Nurse-led design and evaluation of a retractable safety needle for injection safety.
Liu CW; Koo M; Lin ZC.  Journal of Hospital Infection. 164:96-104, 2025 Oct.

Effect of Nursing Practice Environment, Nurse Staffing, Overtime and Hand Hygiene on Hospital-Acquired Infections in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital 2025  Al-Ghraiybah, T., Lago, L., Fernandez, R., Molloy, L. and Sim, J. J Clin Nurs, 34: 4142-4154. (AU) 

Protocol to establish standards for the elements infection prevention and control programs and competencies for infection control professionals in Australian residential aged care homes, 2025 Shaban RZ, Curtis K, Fry M, McCormack B, Parker D, Macbeth D, et al. PLoS ONE 20(2): e0319108. (AU) 

Aseptic technique in clinical nursing settings: a scoping review, 2025 (AU)
Hannah Kent, Sonja Dawson, Joanne Lewis, Brett Mitchell, Journal of Hospital Infection, In Press, Journal Pre-Proof.

Economic Evaluation of Enhanced Cleaning and Disinfection of Shared Medical Equipment, 2025. (AU) 
Brain D, Sivapragasam N, Browne K, et al. JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(4):e258565.

Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous cannula use in Australian emergency departments: a stepped-wedge cluster-controlled trial and health economic analysis protocol, 2025 (AU) 
Egerton-Warburton D, Kuhn L, Enticott J, et al. BMJ Open 2024-096962

Healthcare-Associated Infections: The Role of Microbial and Environmental Factors in Infection Control—A Narrative Review, 2025 
Sandu, A.M., Chifiriuc, M.C., Vrancianu, C.O. et al. Infect Dis Ther 14, 933–971 (2025).

Nursing students led simulations to improve healthcare workers’ hand hygiene compliance, 2024 Livshiz-Riven, I., Hurvitz, N., Nativ, R., Borer, A., Gushansky, A., Eilig, D.,Ziv-Baran, T. Contemporary Nurse, 60(2), 152–165.

Vascular Access Team Central Line Dressing Changes to Reduce Infection Risk: A Focused Two-Person Approach in High-Risk Patients, 2024  Draper A, Nelson S, Taylor B, Arroyo C, Gasama H, Russell R. Journal Infusion Nursing. 2024;47(3):175-181.

Diagnostic stewardship to improve patient outcomes and healthcare-associated infection (HAI) metrics, 2024
Singh, Harjot K. et al. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Vol. 45 Issue 4, pp. 405–411, 2024.

Best practice in the use of peripheral venous catheters: A scoping review and expert consensus, 2023
Walter Zingg, Andrew Barton, James Bitmead, Philippe Eggimann, Miquel Pujol, Arne Simon, Johannes Tatzel,
Infection Prevention in Practice, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2023

Nurse-sensitive indicator quality improvement toolkit: a scalable solution to improve health care-associated infections, 2022
McVey C, von Wenckstern T, Mills C, Yager L, McCauley C, Rivera Y & Reed E (2022). Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 37(4), 295-299.

The burden of healthcare-associated infection in Australian hospitals: A systematic review of the literature
Brett G.Mitchell et al. Infection, Disease & Health. Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2017, Pages 117-128. (AU) 
 

ACIPC

Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (2019) © (ACSQH) 
V11.22, which was published on 9 January 2024.
"The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care provide evidence-based recommendations about the critical aspects of infection prevention and control, focusing on core principles and priority areas for action. All health service organisations should consider the risk of transmission of infection and implement these recommendations according to their specific setting and circumstances."

Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI) Prevention (ANZICS)
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) guidance on CLABSI.
 

Australasian & International Societies

Links and overview of Australasian based societies and organisations dealing with infection control and hand hygiene measures Link

Australia. This video introduces a clinical care pathway for urinary tract infections (UTIs), 2021

World Hand Hygiene Day - 5th of May 2025

ACSQH Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health care

Infection prevention and control

"Effective infection prevention and control practices reduce the risk of transmission of infections between patients, healthcare workers and others in the healthcare environment". This site includes guidelines, processes, consumer information from an Australian perspective.

Hospital-acquired complications (HACs)
Resource page from ACSQH (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health care)

National Hand Hygiene Initiative Manual
(This manual is through the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health care, ACSQH (2020)
It is a general, national guide which can support local implementation of programs to improve hand hygiene. Please refer to your organisational guidelines and specific outlines of hand hygiene for your clinical practice area. 

WHO- Hand hygiene Infection Prevention and Control

The World Health Organisation website includes a number of resources. From high-end evidence level resources to health personnel and consumer handout information. Here you can find implementation - training - and monitoring tools.

Book series

The Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century series (Book series on infectious disease)

Other e-books - open access provider

"Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.  These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. 

Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
"About the Book
The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current." 

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