Bad Contact Lens Hygiene

You must properly care for your contact lenses on a daily basis to avoid eye diseases such as Acanthamoeba keratitis. It is important to be aware of the risks involved in wearing contacts improperly. If you are storing and handling lenses improperly, disinfecting lenses improperly (such as using tap water or homemade solutions to clean the lenses), swimming, using a hot tub, or showering while wearing lenses you are at risk of getting Acanthamoeba keratitis. To reduce your chances at getting an eye disease make sure to thoroughly wash and dry your hands before handling contact lenses, wear and replace contact lenses as instructed by your eye care professional and lens manufacturer, always remove contact lenses when coming in contact with water including showering, using a hot tub, or swimming. If you’re ever experiencing eye pain or redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, sensation of something in the eye, or excessive tearing contact your doctor

Generations of people have considered handwashing a measure of personal hygiene. In 1847, Dr. Semmelweis insisted that healthcare providers wash their hands with disinfecting agents between patients. This early hand hygiene practice resulted in a decrease in mortality rates among hospital patients (CDC, 2002). The CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee published the Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings in 2002 that is based on hand hygiene foundations developed in generation past. In 2014, this guideline is still available online and used as a reference

To help the prevention of infection spreading is by knowing the method of washing your hand because we carry most bacteria sue to the open air that we come in contact with. For example we use are hands to shake hands with someone holding or touching objects. When you are performing any form of hand hygiene you will need to make sure that you have washed your hand with anti-bacterial liquid soap; this is to help prevent any bacteria which we already have on our hands. In all health and social care settings an automatic liquid dispenser should be placed so that when washing hands any individual doesn’t touch or need to even sneeze any part of the liquid

BackgroundInformation|This study examines the implementation of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hand hygiene guidelines and analyzes whether compliance impacts patient outcomes, especially hospital acquired infections (HAI). The correlation of hand hygiene (HH) and HAI is very well described in this study. Rates for HAI were determined both pre and post

An eyewash station should be present within the laboratory in case of splashing of infectious agents in the

Healthcare is an ever-growing, booming industry and as medical technology advances so should our standards of care. Once known as hospital acquired “nosocomial” infections, Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) are still afflicting the very patients we are to be treating. These patients could be our loved ones, friends, and family so to say that, “1 in 25 hospital patients have at least one HAI in a U.S. acute care hospital” (CDC, 2015), is still one too many.

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.

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) affect over 1.7 million patients each year, causing almost 100,000 deaths annually in the United States alone (Johnson, 2010). According to the World Health Organization, HAIs are the most frequent adverse event in the healthcare industry. Fortunately, most of these infections can be prevented with one single intervention, proper hand hygiene (“The Evidence,” n.d.). Four out of five pathogens that cause illness are spread by direct contact. Proper hand hygiene eliminates these pathogens and helps to prevent cross-contamination and HAIs (Linton, 2015; “Hand Hygiene,” n.d.). Reduction of cross-contamination and HAIs improves patient outcomes, increases employee wellness, and lowers health care costs. Adherence to proper hand hygiene is the single most important safety measure in the health care setting. However, for many years compliance to proper hand hygiene in the healthcare industry has been dismally low. New and inventive measures must be implemented to increase compliance to proper hand hygiene and lower the rate of hospital-acquired infections.

Errors in our project include the idea that daily contacts are meant to be used throughout the day and then thrown away at the end of the day. However, we placed these used contacts in a solution overnight like bi-weekly and monthly contacts are supposed to be cleaned. This could definitely have created problems in our experiment since these daily contacts may collect more bacteria. Also, Clear Care is a solution that is only meant to be used in a specific case so that the solution can bubble, oxidize, and neutralize. So this could have created issues since we placed all of the four solutions in a regular, flat contact case. Another error that could have had effects was the differing amounts of agar in each petri dish since it was not exact

Healthcare associated infections have an impact on patients - how? Can be prevented greatly with compliance to hand hygiene protocols (REF).

A microbial keratitis, also termed “corneal ulcer,” is a severe infection of the cornea which, after treatment, can often result in a scar in the region where it was located. If infection was located at or near the center of the cornea, this scar can result in reduced vision. There has to be loss of some of the cells of the outer layer of the cornea (termed the epithelium) for the offending organism to enter. Infection with Fusarium solani, one of the more than 20 known species of Fusarium, is usually the most virulent Fusarium infection. If untreated, Fusarium keratitis can result in permanent corneal scarring and injury.In the early stages of Fusarium species keratitis however hyphae grows horizontally in the cornea rather than vertically,the

Hand hygiene is everybody’s job, including the patients. Linda Pearson (2006) refers to AL Damouk et al (2004) who suggests that inviting patients to become partners in their care maybe an appropriate response to reports of the rising incidence of healthcare associated infections and difficulties with

This experiment illustrates the importance of handwashing and proves that hand washing is worth it. Since our hands are constantly coming into contact with ourselves and others, touching surfaces, grabbing objects, being sneezed into, etc., keeping our hands clean is one of the most effective, yet simple way we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Many diseases and conditions are spread by not washing hands with soap and clean, running warm water. “The human skin is a host to anywhere between 10,000-10,000,000 bacteria per square centimeter and since health care providers come into contact with pathogenic bacteria by being engaged in patient care, hand washing can reduce the risk of spreading diseases (page 3).” The objective of the experiment is to test the effectiveness of hand washing and demonstrate normal flora. This report presents the procedures and materials for the experiment, the experiment's results, and an analysis of those results.

Every day you come into contact with millions of disease infused microorganisms that could potentially bring harm to our bodies, but thanks to our amazing immune system, most of those diseases are destroyed before we develop symptoms. However, some of those microorganisms escape the wrath of our immune system and precede to harm our body. One of the diseases caused from microorganisms such as “Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumonia, or Haemophilus” (NIH), can cause conjunctivitis. The more commonly known term for conjunctivitis is pink eye, which is the inflammation of the conjunctiva or outer layer of the eye.

This assignment will encompass how the results of the personal hygiene and susceptibility microbiology experiments provide a framework for the basis of the NICE Clinical Guidance (CG139) on Infection and how crucial the reasons for the hand wash protocol and hygiene is in all healthcare settings.