Nosocomial infection

currently somewhere near 60 surgeries, to help control her MRSA infection because…

Nursing is a profession that must be chosen to fulfill a desire to help others. It is a truly rewarding career choice but it is not for everyone. Being a nurse is unpredictable; it’s fun, it’s sad, it’s encouraging and discouraging, it’s different every single day. Nursing is a challenging job because every single patient is different and as a nurse, we must individualize our care and use our critical thinking skills to offer the best outcomes. In Ferreira’s philosophy the nurse is the care…

By maintaining hand hygiene, clinicians can prevent pathogens from reaching computer terminals before it becomes a reservoir. Both methods are proven to advance infection control rates (Achieng & Nkechi, 2010). The baseline for hand hygiene compliance often varies greatly in the literature depending on which healthcare worker population is being looked at and where (Kosucu, Goktas, & Yildiz, 2015). The mean compliance…

aeruginosa is a serious threat to immune-compromised patients. It accounts for 35-40% of urinary tract infections in the hospital (Black 2012). In respiratory infections, such as pneumonia it causes hemorrhages and damages the respiratory airways that can be fatal as it causes an inflammatory response (Descamps et al. 2012). This pathogen is known to be the leading cause of respiratory infection in the world (Descamps et al. 2012), which can be ventilator-associated or hospital-acquired…

Ever since the begging of time the medical practice has been in a fight with infections and disease control. From the early era of hospitals patients were at times in the same bed as another patient, thus spreading disease from one to another. A Hungarian obestritician by the name of Ignaz Semmelweis found and adovacted on the importance of hand washing. However, it was not until a physician by the name of Joseph Lister who created a spray to use while conducting surgery, thus being…

a group home with clients who have cerebral palsy, intellectually disability and autism, hygiene is paramount in this environment to avoid spread of any infections. Hand hygiene is the greenest, most active measures for avoiding nosocomial infections (Picheansathian, 2004).I choose evidence based practice in hand hygiene to reduce flu infection, other infectious diseases at workplace and it’s essential in maintaining quality of care for the staffs and clients. Evidence based practice is…

of healthcare. Patients are becoming more informed and knowledgeable about their own health as well as prevalence of medical errors within hospitals and other healthcare institutions across the United States. To decrease such errors such as nosocomial infections, medication errors, pressure ulcers, and even death health care professionals began to take on new approaches to see what works and what doesn’t. Evidence based practice, EBP, is a guide in which nurses use to make effective, timely, and…

Hospital Associated Infections Healthcare associated infections (HAI) also known as nosocomial infections is defined by the World Health Organization as infections that occurs on patients while they are receiving care in health care facilities such as hospital or clinics which was no present or incubating at their time of admission (Tan & Olivo, 2015, p. 108). The problem with HAI is that increases the morbidity and mortality of patients to a yearly projection of 1.7 million infections and…

that develops in an intubated patient after 48 hours or more of mechanical ventilation, and that was not present before intubaton (Fields, 2008). The development of VAP is a concern and its prevention is essential because it is the most common nosocomial infection in mechanically ventilated patients and is a preventable consequence of intubation and mechanical ventilation (Barcaly & Vega, 2005). In addition, it results in high mortality and morbidity, prolonged length of hospitalization and ICU…

to hospital acquired infections are flagged for the minimization of direct contact with healthcare providers and visitors who are not wearing protective gloves, gowns, etc. The third measure requires increased hand washing. The fourth measure involves a continued program promotion of environmental culture alteration in which all workers in the hospital are trained to become proactive with infection control and patient safety (Rosenberg, 2015). The individual hired at each V.A. hospital to run…