Main description:

Key Features:
1. Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control, to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo.
2. Interprofessional in nature and relevant to all those involved in the provision of medicine, health, and social care irrespective of their roles.
3. Truly international in nature in that the chapters have been developed by a range of individuals from across the globe.

Contents:

Part 1: Psychosocial Perspectives
Chapter 1: Psychosocial theories and approaches: Their impact upon infection prevention and control
Chapter 2: The psychosocial nature of infection prevention and control
Chapter 3: The concept of truth

Part 2: Leadership Perspectives
Chapter 4: Leadership and influence in infection prevention and control
Chapter 5: Power and compliance within infection prevention and control practice
Chapter 6: Patient safety, governance, leadership and infection prevention and control
Chapter 7: Communicating with compassion: service user perspectives
Chapter 8: The weaponising of IPC and its heart breaking consequences
Chapter 9: Why do we choose to work in infection prevention and control?

Part 3: Real world perspectives
Chapter 10: Human factors engineering in infection prevention and control
Chapter 11: How we talk about infection prevention and hand hygiene matters for behaviour change
Chapter 12: Do campaigns make you anxious: A focus on unintended consequences
Chapter 13: Educating, engaging, campaigning - social media as an adjunct to infection prevention and control
Chapter 14: Unshackling infectiousness and dismantling stigma: Gay men and HIV
Chapter 15: Physician Associates and their role in reducing the transmission of infection - a personal perspective
Chapter 16: Infection prevention and control in healthcare-built environments
Chapter 17: Musings on philosophy and infection prevention and control