1. Cooperation in ensuring hygienic and anti-epidemic measures at medical departments and technical complementary workplaces.

• Cooperation and collaboration with the Hospital Department of Clinical Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology.
• Participation in the meetings of the Nosocomial Infection Control Team.
• Interdisciplinary cooperation and interaction with the Hospital management, head doctors and head nurses.
• Participation in the head-nurse and head-doctor meetings and once a month at the management meeting.
• Infectious-disease and other epidemiologically significant diseases analysis.
• Prevention and control of the nfections caused by the multidrug-resistant strains (e.g. MRSA, VRE, CRE, ESBL, AmpCk) and toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile - setting up operational measures, isolation modes and defining of the specific procedures in prevention and control of infections. Cooperation with departments where the strains are present.
• Consultancy activities in the development of sanitary-epidemiological regulations and their implementation in practice.
• Application of decontamination, disinfection and sterilization procedures in accordance with the current legislation and the latest scientific knowledge.
• Obligatory-methodological-standard development, guidelines to ensure hygienic-epidemiological issues in the hospital.
• Cooperation in the diagnostic, therapeutic and nursery standard development, not only with regard to the effective prevention of hospital-acquired infections.
• Disinsection monitoring, extermination, implementation and coordination of external space disinfection.
• Monitoring and implementation of the anti-epidemic measures for diseases in the epidemiological vigilance system according to Decree No. 473/2008 Coll., as amended.
• Monitoring compliance with the principles of the barrier nursing technique and the hand hygiene.
• Analysis of the healthcare-associated infections incidence, their interpretation to the Hospital management and individual clinical departments.
• Prevention and control of bloodstream and catheter infections, surgical site infections, respiratory tract infections and gastrointestinal tract infections.
• Transfer records of the patients with the serious epidemiological diagnoses from other medical institutions to Hospital Jihlava.