Even though utilizing personal protective equipment can keep myself and other's safe, viruses need to be a constant concern because of their unknown routes of infection, abilities to mutate and Secondhand contact with patient's substances doesn't change the severity of the possibly infection.
Richard Preston really wrote this book to keep the reader anxious the entire time. Each individual that he interviewed was well aware of how severe of constant concern of transmission from the virus. I found myself shuttering with chills when people would recollect their experiences with possibly contracting the virus by an accident exposure. When Preston wrote about Nancy Jaxx’s thoughts before entering the level four hot zone, they really resonated with …show more content…
I read this particular passage many times and thought of how this comparison can generously apply to everything in sterilization. No, I don’t wear a suit under positive pressure, but I do wear a fair amount of personal protective equipment and for what? Coming into closer proximity with body fluids and each has their own unknown potential diseases. It is possible to provide easy transmission routes for these viruses and bacteria who want me as a host. I don’t need to become a biological bomb if I can prevent the spread and protect myself by wearing a spacesuit of my own with personal protective equipment.
Being with a patient, I have to know their medical history, there for I know the proper safety measures to take, but standard precautions keep my health from being at a high risk when I am around my peer’s patients and their . Even if I’m not providing care to someone else, I need to be aware that diseases are nasty when trying to find a host. Like the monkeys in the Hazelton Research building, viruses can be spread through previously unknown routes, and as a health care provider I can try to stop
Richard Preston really wrote this book to keep the reader anxious the entire time. Each individual that he interviewed was well aware of how severe of constant concern of transmission from the virus. I found myself shuttering with chills when people would recollect their experiences with possibly contracting the virus by an accident exposure. When Preston wrote about Nancy Jaxx’s thoughts before entering the level four hot zone, they really resonated with …show more content…
I read this particular passage many times and thought of how this comparison can generously apply to everything in sterilization. No, I don’t wear a suit under positive pressure, but I do wear a fair amount of personal protective equipment and for what? Coming into closer proximity with body fluids and each has their own unknown potential diseases. It is possible to provide easy transmission routes for these viruses and bacteria who want me as a host. I don’t need to become a biological bomb if I can prevent the spread and protect myself by wearing a spacesuit of my own with personal protective equipment.
Being with a patient, I have to know their medical history, there for I know the proper safety measures to take, but standard precautions keep my health from being at a high risk when I am around my peer’s patients and their . Even if I’m not providing care to someone else, I need to be aware that diseases are nasty when trying to find a host. Like the monkeys in the Hazelton Research building, viruses can be spread through previously unknown routes, and as a health care provider I can try to stop