Medical hygiene

Socio-Ecological Model: Washing Hands Rose-Bertine Mercier University of Kansas HSES 365: Peer Health Education Handwashing is the first preventive step to reduce medical conditions caused by bacterial and fungi. In many cases, it is deemed as “do-it-yourself vaccine” (CDC, 2016). Many preventable diseases are caused by lack of hygienic practices. By properly “washing hands before and after preparing foods, eating foods, caring for the sick, after using the toilet, blowing your nose, coughing,…

Proper hand washing plays a huge role in fundamental aspect of nursing. One of the main cause for transmitting infectious diseases is the lack of hand washing. Many people do not realize that by simply washing their hand, they are preventing the spread of countless diseases and infections. Proper hand washing is not only important in a hospital setting, but also in a house hold because it is very important to properly wash your hands after going to the rest room, before and after eating, or…

types of blood borne viruses are HIV and Hepatitis B and C, and two different kinds of parasites are babesosis and malaria. Blood borne pathogens can be transferred between humans through different routes. Most common ways of transference in the medical field are needle sticks and skin to skin contact. An Airborne pathogen is any disease that is caused by pathogens and transmitted through…

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been presented, the other medics and I will have to perform many various basic medical procedures upon the patients we receive. Seeing as the ability to properly perform these techniques is detrimental to the survival of the society, research is required to learn the safe an correct way to execute them. In this essay I will be synthesizing the information I have gathered from articles written by professionals in the medical field to discuss how to properly sterilize an area of the body in…

According to Virginia Department of Health (Hand Hygiene, 2013) , hand hygiene is defined as a method of removing microorganisms from the hands so the germs cannot be transmitted to anyone else. The two most common types of hand hygiene are hand washing antimicrobial soap and alcohol-based hand rubs. Proper hand hygiene helps reduce the spread of infections especially to those individuals who come in contact with people on a daily basis. Hand hygiene is very imperative to those working in…

To help raise awareness in the at-risk population by teaching good hygiene practice such as proper hand washing. Hand washing is the single most vital in infection control measure in help prevent disease. Accurate hand washing can limit both cross infection and contamination. The type and availability of hand washing facilities…

In colleges all around Massachusetts, with dental hygiene programs, only twenty two students are accepted and I was very well aware that it was a very competitive program to be accepted into. I started to enjoy college a lot I loved to study hard to receive incredible outcomes, it made me want to only work harder and challenge myself more. I enrolled to take all the prerequisites in order to apply for dental hygiene program and on March 19th 2014 I received what I believe to be my…

Praise is used frequently in the classroom. Specifically, there were two incidents that stood out to me. While students worked on a project they were given praise on how good their behavior was, comments on specific things about their project, and on how well their work ethic was to complete the task. The two teachers would interact with the students while they were working and took time to reach each student and give them praise. The second was during center time. One of the teachers came over…

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