Overview

Hospital environment sanitation and ensuring hygiene is one of the most important aspects for epidemic spread prevention. After SARS, MERS etc. these practices are extremely important to capture and include in use in daily hospital work.

Explain the importance of hospital hygiene 

•  Describe nosocomial infections, their sources, and routes of transmission 
•  Present standard and transmission-based precautions for infection control 
•  Describe cleaning, disinfection, sterilization, and hand hygiene 
•  Present measures to improve infection control 
•  Describe components of an infection control program