Researcher’s Conclusion | The researchers conclude four main points. 1) In the community and home setting hand hygiene is the key component for reducing the incidence of infection, mostly in the GI and respiratory tracts. 2) With the use of soap and water or waterless hand sanitizer, hands can be decontaminated from potential pathogens. 3) By convincing healthcare personnel in the community to use proper handwashing techniques at the appropriate time, the risk for contracting infectious disease can
Safety Techniques Nurses need to know and apply proper hand washing techniques, wear gloves during patient care, and use anti-bacterial hand lotion or soap. Nurses need to know the location of the bio-hazard containers and when to use them so as to limit the spread of infection. Nurses need to apply the 3 reads and 5 rights when administering medication to avoid any form of error. (The unintended). Nurses need to apply safety during patient transfer.
Unit 97 Support Individuals to Maintain Personal Hygiene 1 Understand the importance of good personal hygiene Explain why personal hygiene is important Good personal hygiene important to help take care of your body to prevent illness and infection. Good personal hygiene can also help to prevent the spread of infection to others. Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being Poor personal hygiene is known to be unacceptable in our culture. Good personal hygiene helps us to eliminate odours from our body. Odours occur from bacteria found on our skin and in our mouths.
According to American College of Medical Quality (2010), risk management involves identifying conditions that might put patients or a healthcare organization at the danger of undesirable outcome. In addition, the practice involves putting in place measures of avoiding, preventing, and controlling the risks. Quality management in healthcare organization is useful in managing, reducing, and alleviating risks. Risk management is an essential component of making sure that patients are safe, and that the care they get does not endanger their health or wellbeing. Process improvement is a quality management concept that involves the identification of weak areas in order to come up with ways to improve processes at the medical facility.
If HAIs are not minimized by the use of the wound field concept, the safety of the patients is compromised. Because of this, it is vital to draw a principle based framework with the aim of providing optimal and safe wound care management practices. Understanding and practicing the wound field concept in wound dressing is one of the best ways of preventing HAIs (Ellis, 2009). Approaches for the Wound Field Concept in wound dressing Wound field concept has got two main approaches depending on surfaces that are regarded to be free from contaminants. This is according to Gillen (2010).
Hand Hygiene in Healthcare This assignment explains the concerns in the healthcare regarding to National Patient Safety Goals established by The Joint Commission. Hand washing is very important in a long-term care facility. Insisting that everyone does it properly it greatly diminishes the risk for nosocomial infections and passing bacteria and pathogens amongst people. Hand Hygiene: NPSG Goal 7- 07.01.01 Goal seven of the National Patient Safety goals addresses the issue of reducing the risk of health care associated infections. This goal targets the prevention of mortality from health care-associated infections caused by several different drug resistant organisms, surgical related infections, and infections of the bloodstream related to catheter insertion.
Facilities and equipment need to monitor the water for contamination. Then, any contamination found in the water leads the hospital to have a moral duty to treat the water and replace faulty pipes and water storage tanks. Finally, an experienced researcher is required to organize and conduct this question. What is the extent to which CHG wipes reduce HAIs? Quantitative data previously collected may provide the research needed for this study.
Ensuring that they have good hand hygeine techniques is also very important when it comes to the prevention and control of infection. Proper cleaning and decontamintation of equipment and the environment is essential. Employee's may also ensure that they attend all relevant infection control training, and inform their employer if they notice that infection control policies are being ignored, or if relevant equipment or PPE needs to be updated/restocked. 1.2 Employers have legal, organisational and personal responsibilites when it comes to the control and prevention of infection. It is the employers responsibilty to assess the risk of infection or the spread of infection and they must also ensure that all relevant procedures are in place and adhered to by their staff, as well as providing the relevant training for their staff to attend.
Part of an intervention is also the prevention of further progress of the disease or injury. Hand in hand an intervention has three categories of main prevention, primary, secondary, and tertiary. It is always best to apply the prevention by pairing it with the needs of a group, in this case the minority group of AI/ANs. The Institute for Work & Health defines the following: primary prevention is to protect healthy people from developing a disease or injury, secondary prevention happen after an illness or serious risk factor have already been diagnosed, and tertiary as helping people manage the health problems already developed such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer discussed previously ("Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention," 2006). It is important to focus on the main health disparities the minority faces prior to choosing the best prevention.
3.2, Explain procedures to be followed if an accident or sudden illness should occur. Be able to reduce the spread of infection. 4.1, Explain own role in supporting others to follow practices that reduce the spread of infection. (RPL) 4.2, Demonstrate the recommended method for hand-washing. (Observation) 4.3, Demonstrate ways to ensure that own health and hygiene do not pose a risk to an individual or to others at work.