Learning to apply infection control policies on the ward.

DURING MY preceptorship within my current clinical area, I was presented with the ward copy of the trust's policies folder. It included the policies and guidelines on infection control, which I read one after the other. However, I found it difficult to relate them to my own clinical practices as, until then, I had rarely nursed seriously infectious patients within the ward environment. This, therefore, was the reason I chose to study this topic.