Welcome to the Home and Community Care Support Services (Toronto Central) IPAC Pocket-guide!
The IPAC Pocket Guide puts health information at your fingertips. You will have 24/7 access to timely, vital health information so you can protect yourself and your loved ones. This guide supports all employees who may need information about infection control measures to prevent transmission of infectious agents.
The pocket guide will be updated with information on important health concerns and events as they arise.
There are 7 tabs to explore on this website.
- NEW! Please check out a new section COVID-19 under Micro-organisms A-G.
- In the Home page, you will find buttons for contact numbers if you have an issue and other related links.
- In the Micro-organisms tab, the different types of communicable diseases are organized alphabetically. There, you will find what required precautions to be taken, what PPE is needed and the order to wear it in, whether you need to wear PPE because there are durations of when you need to be protected, signs and symptoms your client may be exhibiting, and an FYI section for additional information.
- In the PPE tab, see in detail how to don and doff personal protective equipment for Contact, Droplet & Contact, and Airborne Precautions.
- In the Routine Practices tab, it provides a list of routine strategies and standards you do to protect yourself and minimize your exposure to potential sources of infectious diseases.
- In the Glossary tab, find definitions to IPAC-specific terms.
- In the Resources tab, see additional information that the IPAC Pocket-guide is based on.
- In the Print It Out tab, print out the IPAC pocket-guide if you wish to have a physical copy of it for your everyday practice.
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Website created by Zoe Kan (a third year Ryerson Nursing student) and James Wong (infection control practitioner)
DISCLAIMER: The IPAC pocket-guide is created for Home and Community Care Support Services Toronto Central employees to use. The information included in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is retrieved from the CDC, PIDAC and Mount Sinai Hospital's policy and standard of care. For more information on resources, please click the "Resources" tab of the IPAC pocket-guide.
Pocket-guide last updated: October 6, 2021
