Case Analysis - Allied Medical Waste Transport. Major Problem/Issue.

Pathology waste should not be mixed with regular laboratory-generated medical waste. Sharps must not be placed directly into medical waste bags. Secondary containers must be leak-proof, have rigid walls, and have a securable lid. Secondary containers must be labeled with the biohazard symbol and the word Biohazard on the lid and on the sides, so that the label is visible from any lateral view.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act purpose is to assure that individuals are working in safe environments. OSHA has been around for over 40 years and has come with many advantages as well as disadvantages. According to OSHA, “nursing homes and personal care facilities has had one the highest injury and illness rates, workers have faced numerous amounts of health hazards, and disorders compared to other work places”. These obstacles occurring in the health care work force has lead to the NYS Safe Patient Handling Act. This act consists of programs ensuring workers are better educated on how to prevent injuries, reduce disorders and improve quality of care towards patients.

The Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice for health and adult social care for the prevention and control of infection and related guidance(Department of Health 2009) requires all organisations which provide health and adult social care to have policies, procedures and protocols in place which minimise the risk of infection. This Act came into force in April 2009 for NHS care providers and is used by the Care Quality Commission to assess compliance with the registration requirements on 'cleanliness and infection prevention and control'. Independent health and adult social care will be brought into registration under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 from October 2010 and the Code has been revised to cover all adult health and social care providers.

Has anyone ever considered how medical devices are prepared before a surgical procedure? Central Sterile Processing Department (CSPD) consists of services within the Hospital, in which reusable medical devices will be cleaned, prepared, and processed. The role for CSPD is to prevent infection transmitted by usage of medical devices. The procedure for hospital medical devices before surgery has a four part workflow process in: Decontamination, to Instrumentation, to Sterilization and Sterile Storage (Case Carts). An example is given for reprocessing an Intestinal Set and the supplies needed for the preparation of this medical device set.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule does not affirm the necessary time for medical records to be retained. The rule refers to state and federal laws on conserving time for records to be kept. On the other hand, HIPAA rules do have requirement for methods of disposing medical records. The HIPAA Security Rule requires healthcare organizations and providers to rigidly execute policies and procedures involving the disposal of paper records and EHR. According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shredding, mincing, burning, and grinding methods should be used for paper records so that PHI is unreadable and illegible for recreating. For digital formats of PHI, clearing, purging, and destroying are needed (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2009). Willow Bend Hospital intensely follows these guidelines. Medical information in paper formats will be shredded after reaching the time limit for storing. Before reusing or disposing of hard disk drives or compact disks, the information technology department will reformat the entire drives and disks following the hospital policy number 20.202HIT. If the drives and disks are damaged and the overwriting processes cannot be carried on, the drives and disks will be detached from computers and physically destroyed by pulping or pulverizing before

The safety of medication administration has become a universal issue and crucial for one 's wellbeing. The majority of hospitalized patients are treated with medications (Agyemang & While, 2010). The medical treatment of patients has a direct effect on the patient 's quality of life. Srinivasan declared "patients have a right to know they are receiving safe care" (as cited by Zhani, 2012, p. 1). The purpose of this paper is to identify current quality and safety issues in healthcare, share the impact the issues have on health care delivery, identify quality improvement strategies, and to reveal a plan to implement quality improvement strategies.

intent, good or bad. You must be cautious with regard to regulations on the disposal of waste,

Terrell Pollard called the office at 5:11Pm to inform me that he was unloading a car when he was putting in neutral the chain gave away allowing the car to roll down his bed catching his hand and car door on a post. I ask him if he need the medical squad to come out he said no that it was hurting but that he didn’t need the medical squad to come out. Told him to sit in the truck and to relax that I would be there in a few minutes to help him.

The target audience for the essay would be those who side with the use of dialyzer reuse. The potential challenges from this group is not having enough support to eliminate practice of reuse. Even though reuse program is a liability for organizations due to staffing errors, linked to patient mortality cases, and poses harm to healthcare workers, and environment. The proposed evidence may not be compelling enough to convince the audience. Still, they might argue the benefits of reuse. They might side with the fact that all things come with advantages and disadvantages.

Identified wastes in the current processes using the seven wastes as a guide to what should be looked for. The question was asked, “Why did this waste occur?” and, “What can be done to prevent it?”.

To examine and evaluate my research question, I ended up deciding upon using three different clinics as my field sites: the Berkeley Free Clinic, the Suitcase General Clinic, and the Suitcase Youth/LGBTQ+ Clinic primarily due to their geographical proximity and because they were excellent examples of organizations which, despite their similarity in terms of services offered, have vastly different organizational structures and work cultures. The setting of my first field site, or the Berkeley Free Clinic, was a largely run-down basement area under a church. The very entrance to the clinic was relatively ominous, dirty, and had a series of doors monitored by dusty, degenerating security cameras that one had to pass through before they could gain

In the U.S. we have regulatory requirements for almost every industry. In the healthcare safety and bio hazardous waste and materials is important to prevent other from being exposed to infectious diseases. However, in other countries cultural activities of daily living allows the patient to be put at risk for infection.

An alternative method to flushing is to mix the unwanted medications with an undesirable substance such as coffee in a container, and place it in the trash (McCullagh, Schim, & Ortner, 2012). Mixing helps to hide and reduce the use of the drugs from drug abusers and seekers (school nursing). The disadvantage of disposing medications in the trash is that landfills can often times run off, and access the water supply (Taras, Haste, Berry, Tran, & Singh, 2014). In the hospital setting, most inpatient medications go directly down the drain (Strauch, 2011). Diluting is another method that involves adding a solution to a medication to minimize its effects. Pharmaceuticals are dangerous to the environment, because of their ability to cause change.

Congress passed The Solid Waste Disposal Act in 1965. The Agency of Environmental Safety considered this Act as the primary effort made by federal authority for efficient waste clearance technology. This act controls the dumping material; manage storage and management of solid, both and non-precarious and precarious wastage. It highlights the processes that are environmentally liable to dispose waste at the commercial, municipal, industrial and household levels (Tchobanoglous & Vergara, 2010). This was considered as primary initiative of a chain of systems focusing on resource management and air cleaning (Gerlak, 2005). There have been several major adjustments made to the Act with the reference to Resource Recovery and Conservation Act (1976). The involvement of federal

Special hazardous USEPA pollutants include wastes, medical wastes, military wastes and the radioactive releases. The hazardous waste can be either a designated waste or a characteristic waste. A characteristic waste is named so because it exhibits one of the properties such as corrosiveness, reactivity, ignitability or radioactivity. A designated waste is the waste that is in the list of the USEPA.