Changes in infection control policies and advancing infection control advanced practice nurse education in the Republic of Korea

After the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2015, the Korean government became the payer for infection control (IC) and prevention when hospitals developed IC offices and appointed IC doctors and IC advanced practice nurses. The goal was to enhance IC for all hospitalized patients to prev...

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Autores principales: Choi, Jeong Sil, Kim, Kyung Mi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Practice Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.06.007
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spelling pubmed-71243042020-04-08 Changes in infection control policies and advancing infection control advanced practice nurse education in the Republic of Korea Choi, Jeong Sil Kim, Kyung Mi Am J Infect Control Practice Forum After the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2015, the Korean government became the payer for infection control (IC) and prevention when hospitals developed IC offices and appointed IC doctors and IC advanced practice nurses. The goal was to enhance IC for all hospitalized patients to prevent the occurrence and spread of infection among them. Measures resulted in increased demand for IC personnel, especially IC advanced practice nurses. This study addressed changes in Korea's IC policies and their impact on the IC advanced practice nursing education program. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-02 2019-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7124304/ /pubmed/31331716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.06.007 Text en © 2019 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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