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IPC Audit Tool

by Margarita Silva, from the Community

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Use this Infection Prevention and Control audit tool to assess compliance across clinical and support areas. Verify isolation precautions, PPE availability and use, hand hygiene signage, safe injection practices, and waste management. Review AIIR ventilation, housekeeping, storage, endoscopy and dialysis protocols, operating room and laboratory requirements, dental service sterilization, dietary hygiene, laundry workflows, and mortuary procedures. Identify gaps and standardize practices to reduce healthcare-associated infections.

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Prevention and Control of Infection Audit Tool
This comprehensive Infection Prevention and Control audit tool helps hospitals and health services assess compliance with best practices across leadership, policies, and frontline procedures. It covers hand hygiene, PPE, isolation precautions, aseptic technique, and disease-specific protocols (e.g., MERS-CoV). Modules include employee health, outbreak management, antimicrobial stewardship, housekeeping and environment, medical equipment cleaning, infectious waste, and medical stores. Facility requirements span construction controls, AIIR standards, endoscopy, dialysis, CSP/pharmacy, operating rooms, laboratories, dental services, dietary, laundry, and mortuary operations to reduce HAIs and improve patient and staff safety.
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General Infection Control Audit Checklist
This general infection control audit checklist helps healthcare facilities assess and improve baseline controls that prevent healthcare-associated infections. It covers hand hygiene, PPE availability and use, patient room and isolation practices, environmental cleanliness, sterile processing, medication and nourishment areas, and operating room standards. Use it to verify licensing, documentation, temperature and humidity monitoring, waste handling, and equipment maintenance. The checklist supports audits across multiple hospital areas and floors to drive compliance and safer care.
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IPC Inpatient Audit Checklist
This IPC inpatient audit checklist helps hospitals and clinical teams assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices on inpatient wards. Sections include hand hygiene, PPE availability and use, patient hygiene, aseptic technique for blood sampling and cannulation, parenteral medication safety, isolation precautions, reprocessing of medical instruments and equipment, storage of supplies and medications, blood exposure management, linen handling, environmental cleaning and disinfection, waste segregation, playroom hygiene, and HVAC monitoring. Use it to standardize audits, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions to reduce healthcare-associated infections and improve patient safety.
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Infection Prevention Audit for Labor and Delivery and OR
Use this infection prevention audit to evaluate compliance in Labor and Delivery and Operating Room settings. The checklist covers general infection control practices, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, cleaning and environmental hygiene, storage and sterilization, waste and sharps management, and anesthesia cart checks. It also includes refrigerator and freezer temperature monitoring, medication security, linen and utility room standards, hallway and scrub area requirements, and staff knowledge on isolation and instrument care. Apply it during rounds to identify issues, document corrective actions, and maintain safe, compliant patient care areas.
by Mary Claire Horkay, from the Community
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Prevention and Control of Infection Audit Tool

This comprehensive Infection Prevention and Control audit tool helps hospitals and health services assess compliance with best practices across leadership, policies, and frontline procedures. It covers hand hygiene, PPE, isolation precautions, aseptic technique, and disease-specific protocols (e.g., MERS-CoV). Modules include employee health, outbreak management, antimicrobial stewardship, housekeeping and environment, medical equipment cleaning, infectious waste, and medical stores. Facility requirements span construction controls, AIIR standards, endoscopy, dialysis, CSP/pharmacy, operating rooms, laboratories, dental services, dietary, laundry, and mortuary operations to reduce HAIs and improve patient and staff safety.

by Joven Bilbao, from the Community

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General Infection Control Audit Checklist

This general infection control audit checklist helps healthcare facilities assess and improve baseline controls that prevent healthcare-associated infections. It covers hand hygiene, PPE availability and use, patient room and isolation practices, environmental cleanliness, sterile processing, medication and nourishment areas, and operating room standards. Use it to verify licensing, documentation, temperature and humidity monitoring, waste handling, and equipment maintenance. The checklist supports audits across multiple hospital areas and floors to drive compliance and safer care.

by Ashley Ani, from the Community

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IPC Inpatient Audit Checklist

This IPC inpatient audit checklist helps hospitals and clinical teams assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices on inpatient wards. Sections include hand hygiene, PPE availability and use, patient hygiene, aseptic technique for blood sampling and cannulation, parenteral medication safety, isolation precautions, reprocessing of medical instruments and equipment, storage of supplies and medications, blood exposure management, linen handling, environmental cleaning and disinfection, waste segregation, playroom hygiene, and HVAC monitoring. Use it to standardize audits, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions to reduce healthcare-associated infections and improve patient safety.

by Ahmed Abdalrahman, from the Community

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Infection Prevention Audit for Labor and Delivery and OR

Use this infection prevention audit to evaluate compliance in Labor and Delivery and Operating Room settings. The checklist covers general infection control practices, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, cleaning and environmental hygiene, storage and sterilization, waste and sharps management, and anesthesia cart checks. It also includes refrigerator and freezer temperature monitoring, medication security, linen and utility room standards, hallway and scrub area requirements, and staff knowledge on isolation and instrument care. Apply it during rounds to identify issues, document corrective actions, and maintain safe, compliant patient care areas.

by Mary Claire Horkay, from the Community

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IPC Audit Tool

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