Clostridium difficile

Introduction: Epidemiology: Sepsis is a significant public health burden with increasingly high incidence and mortality rates. In 2010, an estimated 5.1% of deaths were attributed to sepsis in the United Kingdom. Consequently, it is a leading cause of admission to intensive care units (ICU), delays in hospital discharge and a significant cost to the economy. Therefore, it is imperative to raise awareness and prepare clinicians with the knowledge and guidance to embark on the global movement…

toolkit with items like patient, hospital, and clinician resources available through a link in order to help inform people about the appropriate use of antibiotics. APIC even has an entire program dedicated to reducing the effects of resistant Clostridium…

The program should include the side effects of antibiotic usage leading to diseases such as Clostridium Difficile (C. Diff) or a “superbug” antimicrobial resistance (CDC 2017). Examining oncology patients’ prophylaxis therapy individually. Asking question such as: what is the patient disease process; is the patient suffering from Graft versus host disease;…

Introduction: Epidemiology: Sepsis is a significant public health burden with increasingly high incidence and mortality rates. In 2010, an estimated 5.1% of deaths were attributed to sepsis in the United Kingdom. Consequently, it is a leading cause of admission to intensive care units (ICU), delays in hospital discharge and a significant cost to the economy. Therefore, it is imperative to raise awareness and prepare clinicians with the knowledge and guidance to embark on the global movement…

nitroimidazoleantibiotic medication used particularly for anaerobic bacteria and protozoa. Metronidazole is an antibacterial against anaerobic organisms, amoebicide and antiprotozoal.124 It is the drug of choice for first episodes of mild-to-moderate Clostridium difficile infection.125 It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines,…

As rapidly changing health care system is requiring nurses to advance their educations to meet the complexity of patient care. According to the article “Working to meet the challenge: More nurses with BSNs” (2015), the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Report came out in 2010 which promoted the advance and continued education for nurses. The report focused on “increasing the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020” (para. 3). Since then, many hospitals…

Introduction: Epidemiology: Sepsis is a significant public health burden with increasingly high incidence and mortality rates. In 2010, an estimated 5.1% of deaths were attributed to sepsis in the United Kingdom. Consequently, it is a leading cause of admission to intensive care units (ICU), delays in hospital discharge and a significant cost to the economy. Therefore, it is imperative to raise awareness and prepare clinicians with the knowledge and guidance to embark on the global movement…

Numerous studies have been done on the causes and effects of Ulcerative Colitis in the body that ultimately begin and progress through the large intestine. These studies have led to information that allows physicians to help their patients control the symptoms of this disease and enable them to lead a normal life. However, through the research that has been done no significant information has led to the cure of this disease or what truly causes it in the first place. The cause for this disease…

It is important to make an accurate diagnosis in this case as the risk of severe illness and treatment varies between an uncomplicated and a complicated UTI.1 The absent of classical presentation of loin pain and rigors would make acute pyelonephritis very unlikely. She was also haemodynamically stable on examination and showed no signs of urosepsis. Hence, based on this patient’s complaint of dysuria, frequency and suprapubic pain accompanied by urinalysis findings of leucocytes and nitrites;…

but a relative spike in falls in general was noted. The previous month of October the unit had seven falls without injuries. There were a total of 21 falls in 2014 and 24 falls in 2015 thus far (see Table 4). Other pertinent metrics include Clostridium difficile and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus rates, and the microsystem is consistently under the organization’s benchmark. In regard to patient satisfaction, the overall microsytem rating is consistently in the ninety percentile (see…