RE: Infection Report

There are regularities and procedures that aid the preventing and controlling of spreading infection. Getting regular information at work and attending training educates everyone’s understanding about infection prevention and control.

I personally love the fact that OSHA is in place. I want to go home in the same way I came to work. I want to go to work knowing that my employer is making it safe and all precautions to keep me from getting a infectious disease are in place. Knowing there are standards that has to be followed and that the employer must provide the proper PPE for me to perform my job safely is a great reassurance for me. If we did not have OSHA in place the world would not be safe. OSHA helps prevent the spread of diseases and helps keep people safe. People wouldn't want to work around places that wasn't made to be safe. If they didn't have to follow rules some places might cut corners and cause problems .

As a leader in health care, it is important that employees have the proper education and training for compliance with infection control. An infection control practitioner should be assigned surveillance of infections, calculate infection rates, and report these numbers to the appropriate personnel. Clinical nurses, such as nurses, should have periodic evaluations to ensure they are practicing patient safety. There are many other key factors that should be implemented in health care facilities to improve infection control. First is hand hygiene; there could be random observers periodically monitoring a certain floor or department for hand sanitation practices. Secondly, is the health care environment. This includes, making sure employees are sanitizing surfaces and equipment, educating visitors and families on infection control measures, and properly using personal protective equipment. Improper use, wear, and removal of personal protective equipment can cause serious health consequences to the worker and the patients, which means employees need be continuously trained and educated on this equipment.

Weston, D., & Ebrary. (2008). Infection prevention and control: Theory and clinical practice for healthcare professionals. Hoboken, NJ;Chichester, England;: John Wiley & Sons.

First, reducing the risk of healthcare associated infections is implemented a few different ways. One of the ways is proper hand hygiene, by setting goals to improve the compliance of employees it will aid in lowering the percent of healthcare associated infections. This doesn’t just reduce the risk for infections but it mostly reduces the risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. (May 5: Hand Hygiene Day, 2014) About 2 million people in the United States obtain infections that are resistant to antibiotics and over 22,000 people die from these infections every year (May 5: Hand Hygiene Day, 2014). Hand hygiene isn’t just about washing your hands there are other aspects to hand hygiene that are just as important. The Joint Commission has issued specific guidelines that follow hand hygiene and require that organizations are to comply with these guidelines to remain accredited. (Joint Commission, n.d.) Many aspects of hand hygiene that are monitored such as when to wash, how long to wash for, which cleaning agents to use, when it is appropriate to use disposable gloves, and whether or not it is acceptable to wear artificial nails or jewelry. (May 5: Hand Hygiene Day, 2014)

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) was developed and approved because of the escalating costs of accidents and illnesses in the workplace. According to Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, and Cardy (2010), OSHA is a national law that requires organizations to offer a safe and healthy workplace, to conform with particular occupational and health standards, and to document job-related injuries and diseases.

Seung, you are right. Some of the doctors assess patient and toughed them without even wearing gloves, or using hand sanitizer. I have seen a doctor toughing patient’s dialysis access site that was infected without gloves and after he finished assessing the patient, he just use hand sanitizer and continue with other patient. Another doctor was checking patient PT/INR with strip and used bare hand to wipe the initial drop of blood with gauze until it gets soaked and she used another. Do you want to tell me that those doctors do not know infection control protocol. When we talks about infection control protocol, nurses need to advocate and educate people on it including the patient, the family’s member and other healthcare personnel. Everybody

Infection is the invasion and growth of microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites that are not normally present within the body. A prokaryotic cell is a simple cell that does not have a nucleus. One of the most common types of prokaryotic cells is a bacterium. Bacteria are differentiated by many factors including shape, chemical composition, nutritional requirements, biochemical activities, and sources of energy (Tortora 76). A patient with an infection in the upper respiratory system will need to have a sputum sample sent to the lab for further evaluation to determine the cause in order to accurately treat the infection. While many microorganisms can be the cause of infection,

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

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

Patient reports yest infection, she just finished round of antibiotic treatment. Now she has vaginal dischare that is thick and white.

Upon research it has been found that most health care workers spread the most infections because they do not wash their hands often enough and or do not wash them properly.

The CSF cell count results presented correlate with bacterial infection. The high presence of WBCs indicates a possible infection while the high percentage of polymorphonuclear cells indicates a possible bacterial infection. The gram stained CSF resulted in gram-negative coccobacilli, sometimes found in pairs. A positive aerobic blood culture also yielded the same gram stain result. The CSF and positive aerobic blood culture were both cultured on Blood Agar, Chocolate Agar, and MacConkey Agar. Both yielded growth of large, smooth, round, opaque grey-yellow colonies on Chocolate agar but no growth was found on the Blood agar or MacConkey. This suggested that the organism was fastidious meaning they require specific growth factors. The colonies were both catalase and oxidase positive. The organism was identified as H. influenzae using the API NH identification system. The CBC also presented an abnormally elevated WBC count with a high neutrophil count. 25% of the neutrophil count consisted of Bands indicating a left shift. This means that the bone marrow is releasing a large amount of immature

The elements of a minor obstacle include social environment can influence infection prevention techniques. Without proper education infection prevention techniques cannot be done correctly (Cumbler, Satorie, Hamag, & Price, 2015). People go into change blindly which causes chaos and derail the change initiative. The first part of the process is the most difficult and strong reactions may be evoked. For change to occur, they must understand the benefits and become motivated (Lewin’s, 2018). With time, the employee will feel a sense of stability and confidence with the new infection prevention techniques and decrease the rate of HAIs (Cumbler, Satorie, Hamag, & Price,

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