Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition
Standard 3: Preventing and Controlling Infections – Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition

Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition 3.06-3.09: Standard and transmission-based precautions consistent with the national infection control guidelines are implemented, risk-assessed with patients and workforce, supported by PPE processes, monitored and audited, applied by the workforce considering patient risk, placement, environment, procedures and movement, and infectious status is communicated at transitions and to patients

Standard and transmission-based precautions must follow the current national infection control guidelines, jurisdictional rules and workplace safety law. Infection risks must be assessed and communicated to patients and staff collaboratively, controls arranged by the hierarchy of controls must cut transmission as far as reasonably practicable, PPE must be selected, taught, tested and fitted, new science, guidance and law must be watched and acted on, and compliance and staff competence must be audited and improved. Staff must apply precautions whenever required, weighing each patient's risk at referral, arrival and through care, infectious or colonisation status, placement and accommodation, the wellbeing of anyone isolated, building services such as ventilation and water, movement within and beyond the facility, extra cleaning, the procedure and the equipment involved. Community infection data must be reviewed, a patient's infectious status must travel with them through care and transfer, and patients and families must be told about their status, risks and the precautions in place.

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