Influences of healthcare workers' behaviours towards infection prevention and control practices in the clinical setting: A systematic review.

Aim: To systematically evaluate empirical studies investigating the influences of healthcare workers' behaviours towards infection prevention and control practices in the Coronavirus clinical space, and to appraise and synthesise these findings.

Design: A systematic review of the literature.

Methods: The review used a five-step framework described by Khan et al.

A phenomenological exploration of source isolation in patients infected with multi-drug resistant organisms.

Background: The physical isolation of patients colonised or infected with multi-drug resistant organisms is a requirement in hospitals considering the risk of infecting other patients, healthcare workers and visitors. However, how these patients experience isolation in the current environment is not fully understood from the literature.

Aims: To explore and interpret the lived experience of the source isolation in patients infected with MDROs within an Australian setting.

Registered nurses' perspectives on how patients with multi-drug resistant organisms experience isolation.

Background: The isolation of people with transmissible diseases have been known from ancient times. While this topic has been explored from the patients' lived experiences; there is a lack of studies conducted from other viewpoints particularly that of the nurses who provide care to these patients in a 24-hour-period each day. This study explored the experience of source isolation in patients infected with multi-drug resistant organisms, from the nurses' perspectives.