This section is designed to help you find ways to apply the content of this module to your everyday work.

1. Correcting Misconceptions - Before you can successfully change practices in your facility, it is important to correct staff members' misconceptions about infections, transmission, and risks.
2. Implementing and Managing an Infection Prevention Program - This essay gives practical advice on how to institute and manage an infection prevention program at your facility.
3. Forms for Printing - The following assessment survey and user's guide, both optimized for printing, can be used for ongoing assessment of practices at your facility (after printing, click the "back" button on your browser to return to this page).
   • Infection Prevention Assessment Survey
   • User's Guide to the Infection Prevention Assessment Survey
   • These files are also available here as a text download that you can save on your computer and open in any word processing program: Survey download:  survey.txt; User's Guide download: guide.txt

After reviewing this section, you will have completed this Disease Transmission module.

You may wish to begin the next module, Handwashing, or return to the course home page to begin a different module.

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