Personal hygiene products

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are five instances that always require appropriate hand hygiene in order to prevent transmission of hospital acquired infections from healthcare professionals to patients—two times before touching and three times after touching the patient. The first is before touching the patient in any way with one’s hands;…

bundles is seen to be neglected area in practice. I wish to reflect on the influence of maintenance bundles in addition of consistent and emphasizing a good hand hygiene. The joint commission (2015) emphasized the crucial of hands decontaminated immediately before and after each episodes of patient contact using the correct hand hygiene technique. According to a study that has been done by Hakko et al. (2014) with the high level of compliance it could lead to finally achieve a zero infection…

Atul Gawande’s Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance tells the reader about Gawande’s experience while a doctor. Atul Gawande is a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Both, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical school and the Harvard School of Public Health. Gawande is most clearly an accomplished person, but being this accomplished is enough for him. He wants to be better, he desires to make improvements to his life to benefit…

working in the medical field. Nurses, doctors, technicians, or any medical personnel, come in contact with many patients in just a single day. Each patient can have a myriad of different pathogens that can easily contaminate the hospital. Hand hygiene is an easy solution that highly decreases the risk of cross-contamination to other surfaces, coworkers, and even patients. These standards of care, regarding sanitization, are relatively new in the timeline of medical practice. In the…

2.1 Barrier of skin One of the major functions of healthy skin is the maintenance of a physical barrier against the external environment. This barrier is to prevents the absorption of noxious substances and the entry of pathogens, as well as preventing excessive fluid loss from the body. This is the role of the upper layer of the skin, the epidermis, and in particular the stratum corneum. The epidermis is situated above the dermis and is composed of several discrete layers of cells…

There are two important aspects of your role as an adult care worker in preventing pressure damage and they are skin inspection and repositioning. Skin inspection is the best way of identifying whether pressure damage could become a problem. Ideally the individual should inspect their own skin regularly for any changes, but this is not always possible and you may have to support them with this by checking the skin over bony prominences such as heels, sacrum, buttocks and any other areas likely…

Hand hygiene compliance rate in the United States Hospitals is low despite the fact that there is glaring medical evidence that supports the connection between poor hand hygiene and healthcare-associated infections (HAI). It is hard to comprehend why hand hygiene has become a challenging task to healthcare organization to achieve, for nothing is as easy as hand washing; it one of the simplest methods of standard precautions. It is apparent that if healthcare workers do not correctly follow…

cleansers has favourable effects on patients’ skin, with regards to improvement in skin barrier protection inclusive of moisturisation and cleansing. Perineal skin can be cleansed using a moisturising skin emollient such found in E45, however, these products do not have an integral barrier protection and will often need to have additional barrier protection applied to the skin following usage such, as petroleum jelly or barrier films such as found in the 3M Cavilon No Sting Barrier…

You do not need to be a professional painter to complete an interior painting project. However, while some ambitious people will also do exterior painting on their own, most homeowners choose to hire professional painters for their house painting needs. Whatever the case may be, here are a few tips for doing residential painting successfully. For interior painting, prepare the room by emptying it of furniture, covering the floor with a drop cloth taped to the floor boards, removing outlet…

Have you ever been mowing your lawn and your lawn mower seems to be having a tough time? You've checked the gas and its all gassed up, the grass bag is empty. What could possibly be wrong with it. Well it's most likely your lawn mower is in need of an oil change. I'll be teaching you how to do that yourself so you don’t look like a dandy. You'll need a role of paper towels or an oil towel, two empty milk cartons, SF, SG, SH, or SJ oil depending on what your hardware store offers, a funnel and a…