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An Illustrated Guide
to Infection Control
Kathleen Motacki, MSN, RN, BC,
Associate Clinical Professor at Saint Peter’s College
School of Nursing, Jersey City, New Jersey. She is a referral liaison at Children’s Spe-
cialized Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She holds board certification in pediatric
nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She has recently been
appointed to the ANCC Pediatric Content Expert Panel. She is Vice-President for Saint
Peter’s College for Mu-Theta-at-Large Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Nurs-
ing Honor Society. Professor Motacki obtained her BSN and MSN from Kean University,
Union, New Jersey. She has published a continuing nursing education series for contact
hours, “Safe Patient Handling in Pediatrics” in the
Journal of Pediatric Nursing.
Her book
publications include
Nursing Delegation and Management of Patient Care
Mosby/Elsevier,
The Illustrated Guide to Safe Patient Handling and Movement,
Springer Publishing. She has
presented the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society Biennium and was
the keynote speaker at the Founders Day for the New Jersey Consortium of Chapters. She
is a nurse philanthropist, and her volunteer efforts include: Our Lady of Fatima Rehabili-
tation Center in Liberia, Africa; Children’s Specialized Hospital, New Brunswick, and the
Sierra-Leone School of Nursing in Sierra-Leone Africa.
Neeta Bahal O’Mara, PharmD, BCPS,
is a board-certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist
and is licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She is presently employed as a consul-
tant at Coldstream Consulting Company in Skilllman, New Jersey, as a Clinical Pharmacist
at Dialysis Clinic Inc. in North Brunswick, New Jersey, as a Drug Information Consultant
at Pharmacist’s Letter/Prescriber’s Letter, Stockton, California, and as Associate Editor
for Jones and Bartlett Learning for the Pocket Pharmacopoeia, Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Her past experience was as a clinical pharmacist and family practice specialist at Meth-
odist Hospital of Indiana in Indianapolis and Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Bahal O’Mara was a Fellow in Pediatric
Pharmacotherapy at the Wexner Institute for Pediatric Research / Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the Medical College of Vir-
ginia, Richmond, and her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Her professional affiliations include The American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the
American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association,
Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Honor Society, and the Kappa Epsilon Professional Pharma-
ceutical Fraternity. She has received many honors and awards, including Faculty of the
Year from Family Practice Residency, Methodist Hospital. She has numerous areas of
research experience, is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored
several book chapters.
Toros Kapoian, MD, FAACP
is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Univer-
,
sity of Medicine and Dentistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick,
New Jersey. He has specialty training in Kidney Transplantation and Clinical Hyper-
tension. He serves as the Medical Director of the Kidney Center of New Jersey, Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital, and at the Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI) facilities in North
Brunswick and at Madison Center, where he also directs the Infection Control and Pre-
vention Program. Dr. Kapoian is President of the Board of Trustees of the TransAtlantic
Renal Council and serves on the Board of Trustees of the End Stage Renal Disease Net-
work for New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. He has expertise in both state
and federal regulations pertaining to the care of patients with chronic kidney disease and
teaches a structured approach to all aspects of quality assurance performance improve-
ment, including infection control and prevention to nurses and health care providers
alike.
An Illustrated Guide
to Infection Control
Kathleen Motacki, MSN, RN, BC
Neeta Bahal O’Mara, PharmD, BCPS
Toros Kapoian, MD, FAACP
New York
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Motacki, Kathleen.
An illustrated guide to infection control / Kathleen Motacki, Neeta Bahal O’Mara,
Toros Kapoian.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8261-0560-8 (alk. paper)
1. Infection—Prevention. 2. Nosocomial infections. 3. Communicable diseases—
Nursing. I. O’Mara, Neeta Bahal. II. Kapoian, Toros. III. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Infection Control—Nurses’ Instruction. WC 195]
RA761.M68 2010
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