Clostridium difficile

of hospital acquired infections is significantly higher than desired within the Australian Hospitals. In 2012, it was found that around 165,000 people had contracted infections whilst in hospital, these infections included, urinary tract, clostridium difficile, infections at surgical sites, respiratory and staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (Ramalho Cataeo, De Freitas e Silva, Pereira Feitosa, Couto Pimentel, & Dos Sanos Pereira, 2013). These infections can have a severe effect on a patient…

Question 4 Answer: Smoking damages the whole body, but for this answer, I am going to focus on smoking and the changes to our respiratory tract, skin blood vessels and antioxidant levels. Respiratory tract: “(1) Nicotine constricts terminal bronchioles, which decreases airflow into and out of the lungs. (2) Carbon monoxide in smoke binds to hemoglobin and reduces its oxygen-carrying capability. (3) Irritants in smoke cause increased mucus secretion by the mucosa of the bronchial tree and…

urinary tract infections by one per one thousand patients and an increase in surgical site infections by two per one thousand patients. Additionally, other studies have shown increasing nurse to patient ratios leads to increase amounts of clostridium difficile, central line associated blood stream infections, and ventilator associated pneumonia due to nurses not being…

Literature Review The majority of the literature agrees that antibiotic resistance is a serious issue that results mainly due to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. This issue is causing a large financial impact on the health care system. A study conducted by Rajasekar, Guest, and Bodansky (2015), analyzed the medical records of 100 patients in order to ascertain whether or not these patients actually had illnesses that could be treated with antibiotics, or if the antibiotics were misused.…

So if genetic testing can be so beneficial, why is it ethically controversial? As President Bill Clinton once said, we must “recognize that this extraordinary march of human understanding imposes on us profound responsibilities, to make sure that the age of discovery can continue to reflect our most cherished values” ("President Clinton 's Comments on the Signing," 2013). Because of its nature, genetic testing leads to a whole host of potential problems including genetic discrimination, the use…

Introduction Unit managers are men or woman who manage and lead in a nursing unit. Unit managers have many responsibilities of which scheduling, prevention of absenteeism as well as maintaining a cross infection free environment is just a mere few of them. In this assignment I will learn in detail about the above mentioned topics. PART A Guidelines used to ensure fair scheduling of nursing staff Scheduling Scheduling can be defined as the way in which shifts and divisions of shifts are…

AIDS-related lymphoma is a broad term for a group of blood cancers that, as its name implies, affects AIDS patients. There are various types of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) that this category encompasses, so it is not as clear-cut as one might imagine. AIDS-related lymphomas are very complex diseases with many factors to consider. It is important to understand the origin of AIDS-related lymphoma. According to the article “AIDS-Related Malignancies,” AIDS-related lymphoma is believed to be…