Essays Tagged: "Infection control"
Infection control and universal precautions, A nursing perspective.
The principle of infection control is something that is becoming increasingly important in hospitals and healthcare s ... s. This is primarily because of the hardship and suffering it causes to the patient who acquires an infection whilst in hospital and also because of the cost it brings to our already under funded hosp ... ls from increased stays and healthcare workers falling ill.The author will discuss the principal of infection control and by demonstrating the effectiveness of techniques such as hand washing and univ ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Client Study Based on Critical Incident
erienced by a student nurse in an accident and emergency department. Looking into the importance of infection control in line with the incident and ethical issues regarding patient consent and refusal ... ent's clean theatre, it was necessary to change the colostomy bag to reduce any risk of introducing infection to the clean field within the theatre and thus increasing the risk of infection to the sho ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
PREVENTION OF VIRAL RESPIRATORY NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS Jacob Hawkins
PREVENTION OF VIRAL RESPIRATORY NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONSNosocomial infections are one of the biggest problems in post-hospital care. But recently ... biggest problems in post-hospital care. But recently the prevention of respiratory viral nosocomial infections (such as RSV, rhinovirus and influenza) have become the focus of many discussions. So in ... us of many discussions. So in what ways can we reduce the frequency of viral respiratory nosocomial infections? First we must know the modes of transmission the pathogens use.RSV is the most important ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Nosocomial Infections
Nosocomial InfectionsNosocomial infections are diseases or infections that health care professionals give to th ... diseases or infections that health care professionals give to their patients. The term "nosocomial infection" should not be limited to just the hospital setting. People who reside in nursing homes or ... e who reside in nursing homes or who have had short-term procedures have also been found to develop infections due to the same spectrum of pathogens.The concept of infection control was originated by ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Discuss your role as a nurse in preventing hospital-acquired infection while on clinical placement
The aim of this essay is to ascertain what hospital acquired infection entails, the detrimental effects it causes and to highlight the active role nurses can tak ... ffects it causes and to highlight the active role nurses can take in the prevention of this type of infection.Hospital acquired (or nosocomial) infection is: 'one that originated in the hospital envir ... ent or incubating on admission and which appeared 48h or more after admission' (Azzam et al. 2001). Infection is caused by pathogenic organisms which invade the hosts immunological defence mechanism; ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Infection control- hand washing
Write an account:Based on safe infection control techniques using ADPIE (Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluatio ... tten up to demonstrate the links between practice and the supporting theory.Direct observation (2): Infection control.AssessmentHand washing is extremely important in clinical areas, as it reduces the ... essmentHand washing is extremely important in clinical areas, as it reduces the risk of infections. Infections are caused by organisms which invade the host's defence mechanisms. Effective hand washin ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine