
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Walker, Carolyn 
A1  - Cameron, Scott 
T1  - Hospital and community-based  infection control
JF  - Healthcare Infection
JO  - Healthcare Infection
Y1  - 1998
VL  - 3
IS  - 3
SP  - 9
EP  - 12
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/HI98309 
N2  - Although nurses have practised as public health professionals for decades, the role of the nurse epidemiologist is not widely recognised. These practitioners have a tiny voice in comparison with hospital-based nurses, which has put them at a dis-advantage in professional terms. This paper explores the similarities between the roles and tasks of the clinically-based infection control practitioner and the nurse epidemiologist in a public health unit. Such professionals, along with infectious disease physicians, epidemiologists and lab-oratory staff, constitute a public health team dedicated to the control of infectious diseases in both health-care establishments and the wider community. 
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