Medical hygiene

Before the hygienist started she reviewed the medical history for her geriatric patient. This specific patient had high blood pressure and was allergic to latex. I noticed that the hygienist brought out a different box of gloves that were non latex gloves to prevent the patient from breaking out. In…

Sensory stimulation also counts as a form of recommended treatment for patients in a vegetative state. This treatment may be used in an attempt to increase responsiveness in the patient. It involves stimulating the main senses, such as vision, hearing and smell. The treatment is in most cases conducted by a well trained healthcare specialist; however the patient’s family members are encouraged to take an active role. As already stated, since the aim of the treatment is to appeal to the sense,…

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus For this assignment I have been asked to choose a pathogen, describe it and explain how the chain of infection can be broken. I have chosen Meticillen Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. As a support worker in theatres MRSA can cause significant problems for us and for patients, therefore we have to have each patient screened before we operate and we have certain standard precautions we need to follow before, during and after surgery. Staphylococcus…

Objectives…objectives should start with an action verb! (Do Not Use Any Abbreviations) 1. Exploration of the benefits of proper handwashing through current evidenced-based research including successful ways to educate patients about proper hand hygiene. 2. Seek current practices being utilized by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections to educate inmates about handwashing and the impact of these current procedures in illness and disease prevention. 3. Retrieval of data from…

teaching into the school curriculum can reduce to incidences of illness. A study shows that schools are one of the focal settings for the spread of illness among the early and middle childhood populations (Rosen et al., 2006). A study shows by adding a hygiene program into early childhood education can produce a constant increase in handwashing rates (Rosen et al., 2006). Also one of the Educational and Community-Based Programs of Healthy People 2020 objectives addresses the issues for including…

my family for the rest of the night. After reading this information and doing research on other websites, it has led me to the conclusion that I want to become a Dental Hygienist. There are a few colleges with a Dental Hygiene program, and many with…

to increase in areas where sanitation and personal cleanliness is poor. Travelers returning from developing countries seem to be at higher risk for having Blastocystis. Careful hygiene is important to try to prevent…

It is critical that health professionals understand health factors contributing to a person’s health in the health care practice, as a person’s health is affected by many factors or social determinants. These social determinants are Housing, Income, and Environment. Also it’s beneficial and important for an individual to understand or have knowledge about these factors to allow them to make worthy decisions about their health or have an acceptable health behaviors. In these essay the term…

The life of Sir John Simon The world would be such a different society without scientist who have come before us. Healthcare would not be as far advanced if we did not have genius physicians who have come before our time. During the 18th century there was a time where some health inventions were made that shaped healthcare today. One very notable pathologist set new health care standards that pertained to sanitation, his accomplishments throughout his life made him one of the most racializable…

hand washing. The transmission of infections from person to person and objects to persons can be prevented through hand washing. Since the introduction of hand washing by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-65) who documented the association between hand hygiene practices of clinicians and puerperal sepsis in women; hand washing was promulgated as an healthcare standard practice to avoid nosocomial infections in hospitals. Hand washing is also used to prevent transmission of infections in…