1-On-1 Reflection

Keeping a good standard of personal hygiene is important for the prevention of the development and spreading of infection, illnesses and bad odours. Children are taught from an early age about personal hygiene and its importance at giving across a positive body image and to reduce the risk of being bullied. People don’t like to be talked about in

Own health or hygiene might pose a risk to individuals or others at work by causing infections, causing illness or causing fatalities, this can be prevented by washing hands thoroughly before preparing food and after going to the toilet, covering mouth/ turning away when coughing, applying/ replacing old plasters, disposing of used tissues, taking sick leave if ill etc.

All schools have policies in place which help implement health and safety legislation. These policies cover things such as the role of the health and safety officer, fire practices, risk assessments, hazardous substances, lifting and carrying amongst many other things. It is the role of the teaching assistant to help the teacher in the event of anything happen-ing i.e. an accident and the prevention of the accident being repeated (for example, faulty equipment). It is also part of the assistant’s responsibility to make sure that any allergies are known about so if anyone does have an allergic reaction it can be sorted quickly or in a likely event can even be prevented altogether.

They have a little rhyme in reception to encourage this process. Children who have colds and coughs in school are encouraged to catch it and bin it, which is a concept the children have taken to very well. If a child is ill at school, sickness, upset stomach they will have to be sent home and will not be able to return to school for 48 hours. There are special bins and bags that have to be used when cleaning up any bodily fluids or first aid waste. Latex gloves should always be used.

'We have a duty of care towards pupils, we should ensure that they are comfortable and safe and that the environment is secure and conductive to learning. ' Louise Burnham Supporting Teaching and Learning in schools. Indoors the housekeeping must be to a high standard. It is required daily. It is required after each lesson in each classroom and after each outdoor and indoor activity. Tidy areas help prevent accidents and health risks. Toys and other equipment need to be checked on each use visually for wear and tear and removed from use as required. It is good practice to teach pupils to keep their tables, area and things tidy and in order to reduce the risk and possible outcome to them and others. We are to help pupils to be progressively independent according to their age and stage. Correct footwear for PE is important for each pupil. The correct control measures need to be in place for each activity. When using the

Keeping our hands clean is one of the most effcient and important steps we can do as humans to avoid getting sick or spreading germs to other people. Unwashed hands spread many diseases such as the flue, E. coli, and salmonella. Unfortunately, hand hygiene is still one of today’s most leading causes of infection in health care facilities. The risk of clinicians, patients, and visitors not complying with hand hygiene protocols creates a practice problem for nurses and their patient care. The cause of health care infections, also known as, health care-associated infections (HAIs) are increasing along with the rise of the inability to control or treat infections that are multi-drug resistant. Lack of proper hand hygiene is a major problem in clinical settings sourcing from critical care divisions where the most contaminations are prevalent. This paper will discuss how hand hygiene affects the nursing process and solutions of how to better prevent HAIs within the nursing scope of practice.

The establishment of a health and safe environment is essential for the work of the school. It is also a law. It depends upon sound management, vigilant supervision and the co-operation of all children and adults.

Related to my role as a teacher, I have to make sure that learner have to be safe in leaning environment, I must prevent, remove or use with precaution anything that wouldn’t affect the learner’s health and safety. If the student are doing some kind of test in a science lab, we must make sure there is nothing on the floor, all the bag and chairs have to be remove an put in safe place, they have to use gloves if necessary and wear a goggle for eyes protection, and always wash hands at the end of session.

Action: After making these findings, she collaborated with the infection control staff, her manager, and her team to formulate a plan to solve this problem. At every huddle, she reminded staff the importance of washing their hands. She designed signage to remind staff, patients, and visitors to perform hand hygiene and to empower patients and family members to ask staff members if they have washed their hands. These signs were placed on all 25 patient room entrances and are a visible reminder to everyone who enters. She also educated staff to collaborate with the housekeeping staff to maintain functioning hand hygiene equipment. When performing as charge nurse, she audits all patient charts to confirm that each patient has had their nares swabbed to maintain compliance and assigns patients accordingly to beds based on their multiple drug resistant organism history. Outcome: Through random audits, she found that hand hygiene performance increased to 100%, and the staff is educating patients, family members, and other healthcare professionals in other disciplines about the hand hygiene compliance initiative. The C Diff transmission rate as of December 2015 was 39.45% - the C Diff transmission rate for first quarter FY16 was 18.48%, this shows a 50% reduction in C Diff transmission on her unit. The MRSA transmission rate as of December 2015 was 7.97% - MRSA transmission rate for first quarter FY16 was 3.7% which also shows a 50% reduction in MRSA transmission. Sustainability: She continues this to perform random audits, reinforcing education as needed and continues surveillance while performing duties on 7B. She made it the 7B staff’s responsibility to hold each other accountable for performing hand hygiene in order to maintain the safety of the

• Work with Public Health to create a robust hand-washing initiative that includes fliers, brochures, and e-mail blasts to the students, staff, and community at large clearly depicting proper hand-washing technique. Email blasts will originate from University leadership to emphasize the importance leadership places on the health of University students and the initiative. To further reach students, social media snippets regarding the importance of hand-washing and flu-related illness information will be employed and released by the Student Health

Once the K-1 writing booklets arrived and I was able to complete my own overview of administering this final domain my prior assumptions were inaccurate. I was pleasantly surprised to find very few questions and each one was a different measurement of a student's writing ability. I was able to immediately lower each of my ELL student's affective filters and raise their motivation by letting them know that this portion would not take as long as the last one and they were going to do

Maintaining high standard of hygiene and health are essential in preventing the spread of transferable disease and ensuring good health for the community. (The Department of Health & Human Services, State Government of Victoria, Australia, 2016)

Research shows that Surgical site infections are preventable. According to the CDC, hand hygiene is the simplest approach to preventing the spread of infections and needs to be incorporated into the culture of the organization. Ensuring the use of infection control prevention is an important component of nursing care. Infection control prevention policies must be communicated undoubtedly to all employees. Staffers who do not comply must be re-educated to ensure that all are complying. Speaking up and pointing out that a nurse forgot to wash his or her hands, or notifying the surgical team that surgical instruments were not adequately cleaned may seem like small issues; but at the same time, not acknowledging a break in a sterile technique could mean the difference between life and death for a patient. One hospital that was struggling with high levels of infection related to surgical procedures, implemented a pre-procedure huddle as a team. This innovate way decreased the spread of infection and was a great way to improve the quality of care for patients. As mandated by the Joint commission, infection prevention personnel should provide multidisciplinary education on SSI prevention, to all team members, including

Within the essay I am going to discuss whether good hand hygiene practices are the single most important factor in preventing cross infection. Some may argue for this statement others against. Jeanes A (2005) refers to the NMC code of professional conduct (2004) who state that you must act to identify and minimise risk to patients and clients.

(Nagel 22). Student nurses and volunteers should place emphasis on hand-washing before and after contact