Case Study: The Co-Workers Statement

Coworkers. These are the people that the majority of us have to deal with by the time we reach the college level. Some can be a joy to work with, while others may not be as easy going. As an employee, at my current job, I’ve had good and bad experience with my fellow coworkers, but over the course of time I’ve learned how to handle this type of situation. At any job you will have to know how to deal with different types of coworkers. To my understanding coworkers can be classified into three major groups: slackers, overachievers, and neutral co-workers.

I will then explain that there are some things they can do to keep infections at bay. Not touching the sores will help keep them clean. It will be hard at first to not scratch when they are having the itching sensations but it is important to touch the area as little as possible to keep any infectious agents out of the area. Not touching will keep it clean and keep the pain down as much as possible. They need to make sure they wash their hands any time they touch the areas because they can spread the virus. They need to stay away from people who have not had the chicken pox or the vaccine. People who are immune suppressed and the unborn child of a pregnant women. This virus can be life threating to all of these people.

The incubation period for chicken pox is 2-3 weeks (Bishop,P et al. 2010), this is the contagious time before the signs and symptoms start showing, which means the nurse’s daughter, was past the infectious period of the disease. The nurse’s daughter could have had the virus for over a week, and exposed her mother to it during this time. If the nurse developed symptoms a few days after getting Varicella Zoster Immunoglobin, she had already contracted the virus before immuniglobin injection had been administered, thus not able to prevent chickenpox in this case.

It is not a serious health issue to healthy children and adults. It can cause problems for pregnant women, newborns, teens, adults, and people who have immune system problems. Chickenpox is spread easily. It can be spread by an infected person when they sneeze, cough, or you share food or drink with them. It can also be contracted by coming in contact with the liquid from a chickenpox blister. If you live with someone who has chickenpox, you have a much higher chance of contracting them. The first symptoms occur fourteen to sixteen days after a person is infected with the virus. Infected person usually feels sick and runs a fever; they have a loss of appetite, headache, cough, and sore throat. The rash appears a day or two after the other symptoms begin. After the rash appears, it takes a day or two for the spots to go through all of its stages. These stages include: blistering, bursting, drying, and crusting over. New spots will continue to appear for five to seven days. Ten days after the first symptoms is when all of the spots usually will have crusted over and it is okay to be around other

Patients have observed several physicians and nurses not washing their hands before interacting with patients. Hand hygiene is one of the largest tactics to combat nosocomial infections. The hospital should adopt a culture of 100% compliance with hand washing. The first step would be to increase handwashing stations and have more quick-dry alcohol-based antibacterial soap dispensers. Making access easier and decreasing the time taken to wash one’s hands would encourage adherence the policy. Furthermore, each floor should track hand washing and report data of potential nosocomial infections caused by improper handwashing. Keeping patients protected from bacteria is important especially when most are in an immunocompromised

In this paper, the nurse author will discuss the communicable disease called Varicella, also known as chicken pox. The nurse author will discuss the causes, symptoms, and mode of transmission, complications, and treatment, as well as mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence of the disease. The determinants of health will be described, and the factors that add to the progression of the disease. The epidemiologic triangle, as it relates to Varicella, will be examined, including host factors, absence or presence of agent factors, along with environmental influences. The role of the

Every day while caring for patients, dedicated health care workers all over the world face potential risks of exposure to infectious disease bacteria or bloodborne viruses due to unintentional punctures with needlesticks or sharps, or accidental contact with bodily secretions, excretions and contaminated items (Wilburn, 2004). The occurrence of undesirable complications can arise from medical errors when safety guideline and control mechanisms are not followed. On occasion healthcare workers may accidentally acquire infections due to the misuse or improper fit of personal protective equipment (PPE) and coverings while attending to individuals seeking out medical attention that may be unexpectedly and unknowingly carrying a communicable disease

Though it is most prevalent in children, adults can occasionally contract this virus in the form of shingles. The risk of shingles is higher in tropical regions where the cases of children having varicella is lower, because varicella-zoster is susceptible to desiccation, heat, detergents, and disinfectants that are used in healthcare systems (Gnann, 2002). Also, people with weakened immune systems are more susceptible to contracting the virus. Studies conducted by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that 90 percent of adults are immune to the chickenpox virus, and of those who are not immune, only 2.7 to 16.3 percent of the those are at risk of developing pneumonitis (Baker, 1999). Additionally, only about one-third of this percentage of people will have the respiratory symptoms; however, a larger percentage of with immunocompromised patients experience respiratory symptoms (Baker,

My role is in our piece is being a depressed teenager that goes to parties to try to distract himself from his own depression. The reason why my character is depressed is because he recently broke up with his girlfriend that he had a two year and a half relationship with, and since he truly loved her, he is completely lost without her and he doesn’t know what to do with his life. The reason why they broke up because my character found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend.

I wanted to take the opportunity and convey my gratitude regarding the level of support received during the events leading up to and execution of WOBC Phase II Class 16-002 ALE to this point. The RCTD support staff, both in the stealth room and BMC, have been first class in every aspect. Their ability to adapt to mission requirement makes a challenging exercise seamless and allows us to focus our attention on training the Army's newest aviators. However limited that ability may be (myself and Mr. Oaks' ability), I believe with the help of your staff we were able to achieve a realistic, meaningful, and relevant environment for our class to learn. This level of professionally supported training sets the conditions necessary for these aviators

Most people who are infected with chicken pox will be advised by the doctor to wait for the virus to pass through their system, since there is no cure if you are already diagnosed with the disease but you can by some medicine to relive the itchiness of the rashes. Parents will be told by the doctors to keep their child out of school to prevent the spread of the virus. Infected adults are told to stay home and relax.

This worker received messages from Jeremy Wallace at 8:22pm about Lamyia telling him that the children were going to be taken from his house because he hadn't gone to meetings. Jeremy was only told about one meeting he told this worker. Jeremy asked the worker to please respond he was trying to see what was going on. Jeremy stated that he could explain everything. He didn't want this to happen. It was just a miss communication. He would do whatever he had to do.

Positive relationships with children’s families are the basis of being culturally responsive. A child’s family is made up of the most important people in their life, and will have the greatest influence on their emerging identity. When schools and families work to build positive working relationships, it shows children that their background and language are accepted and valued. For a student, being accepted and valued helps children feel they are an important part of the school community, helps develop a positive cultural identity which builds their self-esteem, and supports their mental health and well-being. Home environmental influences are positively associated with the kinds of benefits desired by teachers for students. When parents are

The main priority in my workplace is to protect the patients, visitors and staff from the risk of acquiring a hospital-associated infection. Most of our patients are immune-compromised due to treatment or disease, so we introduced a zero tolerance approach to poor hand hygiene. It is universally recognized that the hands are the primary source of cross-infection and good hand washing techniques are the main factor to prevent infection (Weston, 2013). We have enforced good hand hygiene practice by ensuring that all staff members are up to date with the mandatory yearly training and observing the 5 moments of hand hygiene. Family/visitors of patients are

This essay was written to explain the epidemiology of chickenpox and allow the reader to develop a better understanding of the disease. The author intended for the reader to become informed about the causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment and mortality and morbidity rates. Also, the reader will become familiar with the determinants of health and contributing factors to develop varicella, the relation of the epidemiologic triangle, the role of the community health nurse, as well as identify a national organization that reduces the impact of the disease on the community.