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    infections, which are infections that are preventable. Moreover, upon learning of the high rates of hospital acquired infections in New York State, and most particularly in Brooklyn where I reside and where an antibiotic resistant strain of Klebsiella Pneumoniae accounted for more than 20% of the hospital acquired infections, I felt ashamed and concomitantly jolted into wanting to make a positive change (Consumer Reports, 2012; Rosenberg, 2015). I realized why so many people are fearful of…

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    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…

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    Uti Case Study

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    Objectives: ¥ Discuss the most common microorganisms that can cause urinary tract infections and understand the pathogenesis of urinary tract infections. ¥ Review the most common laboratory tests in diagnosing as well as the clinical signs and symptoms. ¥ Review treatment options, both non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic. Overview: Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are one of the most common illnesses seen in adult patients over the age of 65. [1] Therefore, managing and treating an elderly…

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    Uti Essay

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    URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS Abstract UTI is one of the most common infection to affect people all around the world in today's world, putting a huge load on the health care system cost wise. Because this problem is so common and so significant in routine clinical practice, a high level of diagnostic accuracy is essential. The urinary tract infection (UTI) which involves urethra, bladder or kidneys can be infected, the majority of UTI are not serious and can be treated by antibiotics but if not…

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    Microorganism Lab Report

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    The D4 bacterial microbe was negative for the presence of capsule. The gram negative bacteria’s like Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Serratia marcescens,and Saccharomyces cerevisiae had capsules .However, only one of the gram negative bacteria’s Proteus vulgaris had no capsule on its surface. Finally, an acid fast stain was conducted to the unknown bacterial and it showed…

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    L-Ornithine Research Paper

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    1. Introduction L-Ornithine is an important chemical ingredient for its applications in food and pharmaceutical industries as a dietary supplement, as it is known to be efficacious in the treatment of liver diseases and wound healing [11]. It can also be used as a precursor for the synthesis of other amino acids, such as arginine and citrulline, and putrescine, an important diamine used as a nylon precursor [28]. L-Ornithine could be produced by fermentation using auxotrophic mutants, for…

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    Essay On ESKAPE Pathogens

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    The purpose of the research was to potentially find a new bacteria that is capable of producing an antibiotic against one or more of the six ESKAPE pathogens (a group of pathogens that are resistant to most if not all current antibiotics). All research protocol was based on the Yale Small World Initiative and the third edition of Microbiology Laboratory Theory & Application. One bacteria from a sample of soil collected (colony #18) was tested for its ability to produce antibiotics against two of…

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