Patient Education/Family Information

General information regarding VRE including how to manage after discharge.  You can add your facility logo, make revisions, and inclulde contact information.

This patient education handout introduces home isolation.  You can add your facility logo, make revisions, and include contact information for infection prevention and the local health department.

This document gives you a starting place for patient education regarding Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  You can add your facility logo, make revisions, and include your contact information.

General information about herpes zoster.  Also include mention of the vaccine, Zostavax.  This document can be revised, your logo can be added, and you can include your contact information.

General information regarding scabies.  You can revise this document, include your facility logo, and include your contact information.

This is a general overview that describes resistant organisms.  This is suitable as basic patient education material.  You can add your facility logo, revise as needed, and include your contact information.

General information about the pneumococcal pneumonia shot is included in this patient education handout.  You can revise this document, include your facility logo, and include your contact information.

The practice of good Hand Hygiene is the best way to prevent the spread of infection.

Two methods of Hand Hygiene:

1. Hand washing with soap and water
2. Alcohol hand rub (located in all patient care areas)

Clean your hands:

2. • before eating
   • after using the restroom
   • after touching any hard surfaces (bedside table, hand rails, and phone).

Doctors, nurses, and visitors must also use good hand hygiene before touching you. It is okay for you to remind them to do so.

Even though very careful infection control practices are observed during the care of all patients, it might be necessary at the time of your admission to the hospital or sometime during your stay to place you in Contact Precautions. This means that you have (or maybe have) an infection that needs more precautions in a hospital setting.

This 18 page booklet has been developed using Microsoft Publisher.  It contains informaton regarding the basic epidemiology of MRSA and addresses common questions that patients and family members may ask.  Topics included in this booklet are dressing changes, MRSA and athletes, pets, environmental cleaning, and general prevention tips.

Addresses general information regarding bacterial and viral meningitis.  You can revise, add your facility logo, and your contact information

General information regarding herpes.  Most useful in addressing herpes as an STD.  You can revise, add your facility logo, and contact information.

General information regarding Hepatitis B.  You can revise this document, add your own facility logo, and your contact information.

General information regarding Hepatitis A for patients and families.  You can add your facility logo and your contact information.

Basic information regarding foodborne illness and prevention.  You can add your facility logo and your contact information.

Patient information regarding C. difficile.  You can add your facility logo and your individual contact information, if you so choose.

This is a simple handout that can be given to patients and their families.  It can be downloaded and individualized with your own hospital logo and your contact information.