Sleep hygiene

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…

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS A laundry shop offers services that will aid in cleaning any type of garments that their customers want to be laundered. Some laundry services offer free delivery that will be of big convenience for their customers. Laundry shops may vary in terms of services; some offer self-service that will let customers do the washing while other shops will perform the laundry services including ironing and folding. Prices may differ according to the volume of laundry or according to the…

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…

With regards to cleansing soap and water is not advised for skin cleansing post-incontinence, soap adversely affects the skin by removing natural oils which results in dryness. Thus making the skin more vulnerable. The majority of soaps and cleansers are alkaline, with a pH around 9, and when used routinely to cleanse the skin of patients with incontinence these can affect the skin’s acid mantle (Kirsner and Froelich, 1998). The pH of the skin normally is 4.5 – 6.2, which creates the acid mantle…

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…

Where Do Bacteria Grow? I had some prior knowledge about bacteria before conducting the environmental sampling lab. I knew that bacteria could be found in many different places. Also, different types of bacteria grow in different conditions. From prior experience, I remembered that to grow bacteria in a petri dish one must follow the proper technique. I chose to test how much bacteria grows on toilet handle in the bathroom. My prediction for the experiment before it was conducted was that…