Medical hygiene

Patient is a 45-year-old female who sustained a left-sided CVA with right-sided hemiparesis. She lives in a 3-story house with her daughter. She is currently on medical leave from her job as human resources manager. She has prior history of CVA and she is also diabetic. She plans on returning to her job and regain her independence. She also expressed that she want to live close to normal life. After her hospitalization, the patient has been receiving occupational therapy services at a skilled…

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…

To become a dentist you are stuck with many choices in which to pick from and do. One of the most common is dental hygienist. Their job duties center around cleaning patients' teeth and giving instruction in proper dental hygiene. They can't make major decisions because they are under a licensed dentist. A dental hygienist needs at least an associate's degree to work in that career. An associate’s degree only takes two years. A dental hygienist need to have the the basic understanding of…

Personal hygiene is important to our daily lives. We can practice personal hygiene through many ways such as bathing, hand washing, haircut, nail grooming, brushing of teeth, etc. to help prevent spread of germs and diseases. There is a saying in my local dialect that as a person appears so is his…

Hand hygiene became the cornerstone of strategy because it is simple, standardized, cost-efficient, and based on solid scientific evidence (Wilkinson & Treas, 2011, p. 423) to prevent the spread of infection. However, as simple as hand washing can still have complications like compliance and adherence in daily nursing practice that resulted to an extensive struggle. One study have shown that the “main challenge is to ensure implementation of and compliance with the evidenced-based…

monitoring devices (Srigley et al. 2013). Busy work environment: - Busy work environment could lead to HH procedure being forgotten by HCWs while they are dealing with the complications and providing care for patient in post-operative ward (Hand Hygiene Australia, 2014). Unwilling to agree the changes: - some HCWs could refuse to accept the changes, where they may not like using electronic devices to monitor their HH moments (Srigley et al. 2013). Monitoring barrier: - Srigley et al. 2013 has…

measures aim to ensure the protection of those who might be vulnerable to acquiring an infection both in the general community and while receiving care due to health problems, in a range of settings. The basic principle of infection and control is hygiene. http://www.who.int/topics/infection_control/en/ The role of the Infection Prevention & Control Team is to promote best infection control practice in order to ensure the safe delivery of a quality service for patients, visitors and staff. The…

As obvious and rational as it might now be, the act of washing hands to prevent infections wasn’t so apparent up until the late 1800s. Back when doctors and medical students would move from dissecting a corpse straight to performing surgery on a patient, what is now known as infectious diseases were attributed to various reasons, and as every human being is in someway distinct from others, it was suggested that the cause of every death was too (Semmelweis seal., n.d.). In the 1840’s, and due to…

setting by covering your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough, sneeze or when necessary. Dispose of the tissue and wash your hands often with soap and water. Best ways to prevent spreading or getting this disease: • Maintain good hand and body hygiene, wash hands often, and…

escribe the precautions and personal protective equipment required to care for this patient. Patient should be placed on Transmission-Based isolation. "Droplet transmission occurs when the pathogen travels in water droplet expelled as infected person exhales, coughs, sneeze, or talks."(pg. 608 Treas). " Droplet can spread by direct spread with mucous membranes or indirect contact touching bedside table that was containment with most droplets then rubbing your eye."(pg. 623 Treas). "Standard…