Tools
Tools in English
Each tool is available in multiple languages to ensure accessibility for all users.
Hand Hygiene Poster
Awareness poster promoting hand hygiene, encouraging good practices, and featuring a quiz to test hygiene knowledge.
Myths About Gloves
Explains common misconceptions about glove use in healthcare, highlighting their limitations and the need for proper hand hygiene even when wearing gloves.
Preventing UTIs in residents with and without catheter
Provides guidelines and best practices to prevent urinary tract infections in residents, focusing on infection prevention and control.
Myths about UTI
Debunks 8 myths about UTIs in elderly residents, emphasizing that bacteria in urine doesn’t always mean infection and that unnecessary antibiotic use leads to resistance.
UTI Leaflet for relatives
A guide for relatives on UTI symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention in nursing homes. Warns against misdiagnosis and excessive antibiotic use.
UTI algorithm pocket cards
Diagnostic algorithms for healthcare staff to identify UTIs in residents with and without catheters, avoiding misuse of dipsticks and focusing on specific symptoms.
UTI Algorithm Review for Staff
Provides guidelines for identifying and managing UTIs in healthcare settings, emphasizing symptoms, systemic signs, and physician contact.
Training Programe
Covers infection prevention in nursing homes through proper hygiene, diaper changes, and bladder management.
Poster Virus-Bacteria
Educates on antibiotic use, distinguishing between viral and bacterial infections, and highlighting symptom duration.
Antimicrobial Stewardship Postcards
Short messages about antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance for everyone.
INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL (IPC) AUDIT
Audit: Resources and procedures
related to anogenital hygiene and handling
an indwelling urinary catheter
Presentation
Instructions to read carefully before you start with the audit to ensure that you know how to register your observations.
How the Tool Works?
We carefully describe how to fill in the different fields of the auditing tool.
Tool
Auditing tool to be completed. Resources and procedures related to anogenital hygiene and handling of the urinary catheter.
INFECTIONS AUDIT
Audit: Instruction for filling the antibiotic treatment registration.
How the Tool Works?
Instructions on how to fill in the form when antibiotic treatment is started during the three-month audit period.
Tool
“Auditing tool to be completed. This instrument is designed to systematically record and monitor all antibiotic treatments administered in nursing homes. Its purpose is to ensure consistent documentation, support clinical decision-making, and facilitate the evaluation of prescribing practices over time.
