Restricting Policies For Patient Placement

Patient safety is number one in hospitals. Every staff member that comes into contact with a patient should always have the question, “Will the patient be safe?” in the back of

Dirty equipment – having dirty equipment which is not cleaned between patients can spread infection very fast lots of bacteria can be spread on a blood pressure cuff for example.

In addition, risk assessments should be undertaken for example; each person who has a catheter; PEG feed; pressure sore; or other factor which makes them more susceptible to the risk of infection. Ultimately anyone within the home who can cause infection are subject to risk assessment under the COSHH Regulations and Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1992. It is important that infected residents are isolated and infected staff excluded from work, until 48 hours after the symptoms have settled. Management of cases should be planned following a risk assessment, which should consider continence, personal hygiene, overall health, likelihood of physical contact with other residents or their food, the facilities available and the vulnerability of other residents. The local HPU can advise on this process. Infected residents should, if possible, have sole use of a designated toilet or commode as long as their symptoms persist. In the case of a likely norovirus infection, they should keep a designated toilet facility for 48 hours after their symptoms have settled.

SUPPORTING INFECTION AND PREVENTION AND CONTROL ON SOCIAL CARE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 1. Explain how infection prevention policies and guidelines can be applied in own working settings Infection prevention policies and guidelines can be applied by • Providing information that is recent on how to prevent infections. Training staff regularly and making regular supervision relating to health and infection. • Providing the right equipment at all time for staff and service users can go a long way to prevent infection. Also making sure the proper sterilizing of scissors, urine bottles……… • Proper disposal of material used for service users.

The standard precautions are implemented at all times to decrease the risk of transmitting infectious agents. Assuming that all patients could carry an infection, this minimises the potential spread of HAI’s. These standard precautions include routine hand hygiene, the use of personal protective equipment, safe handling and disposure of sharps and routine environmental cleaning.4,5 In this situation, where blood is present, this is considered a biohazard. Hand hygiene must be performed before touching the patient, before and after any procedures or exposure to bodily substances and after touching the patient or any of the patient’s surroundings. The use of Personal protective equipment should be used when attending to the patient. This includes protective eye wear, a surgical mask and an apron for protection from any splashes or sprays of blood generated by the patient. Gloves should also be worn for single use only when coming in contact with open skin and bodily fluids. To minimise the spread of blood, the bystander with visibly soiled hands should also be advised to thoroughly clean them with soap and

Hospital and other health care facilities should set strict guidelines on infection control to sanitary officers, caregivers and family members as long as they come in-contact with an inpatient.

As a hospital, quality care should be a priority for patients that are going to be treated for a sickness, or any type of procedure that is going to take place. A lot of times a patient gets an infection while they were at the hospital, on top of being treated for what they original came in for. Health facilities should be environments of healing, which they are, but they also have tons of various types of germs and infections, which grasp onto individuals that have weak immune systems/are sick. Some infections that are at hospitals are Tuberculosis, VRE, VAP, C-Diff, UTI, and MRSA. Preventive measures to stop the spread of the infections is lacking tremendously in the work and aim to provide safety for all patient’s health. The work

To protect ourselves from MRSA nurses and anyone that interacts with the patient should be using contact precautions. This means we should be gowning up, wearing gloves, and wearing mouth or eye protection when necessary. Even though we have gloves on nurses should be washing their hands thoroughly after all care with the affected patient. Also, we need to make sure if any equipment is to be returned to the unit to use on others that it is cleaned with bleach wipes to clear it of any contaminants. External factors of this standard are those that come from outside agencies. Some examples of those would be the Joint Commission, CDC, HIPPA, or the ANA. Internal standards are those that come from within the hospital like the policies and procedures

Washing hands before and after each patient and applying gloves when appropriate is a law that is followed in the hospital. This prevents the spread of infections and diseases among the patients. Another important law is to not have your gloves on when walking in the hallways because doing so will cause the entire group to be out of the unit and it’s not an infection control. It’s also a way to transport pathogens and contaminate surfaces on the patient’s room, the patients, or the health care team. Always wearing an ID badge will provide others with information on who you are and notify them if your allowed to provide care to the patients. Not carrying phones with you is a very important regulation that you must follow because it protects the patients confidentially and privacy. For example, taking pictures with or of the patients or using them while assisting with care makes them feel uncomfortable and insecure. Finally, a HIPPA regulation observed and should be used is keeping patient’s information confidential by only sharing it among care givers involved in the medical care. In addition, not speaking about patient’s medical care in public places or in a loud tone of voice is important as well because it’s for the protection and security of the

prevent errors, training to improve safety and track and reduce risks to patient were low with a score of 14.55/40 and 80/129. The preventive measures to reduce infection for handwashing was 30/30 and steps to prevent ventilator problem was 11.67/20. Communication in order to prevent medication errors was 35/35. The hospital has a Never Events policy, in the event of errors or adverse event the hospital takes responsibility to apologize to patient, report to external agency, perform a root cause analysis and wave all.

This issue I identified during my clinical practices and this is related to the patient safety culture. Almost in any healthcare setup, the operation theatre staff has a prescribed surgical attire. Sometimes Operation theatre staff during or after completing the surgeries leave the OT room without removing the surgical attire. Exposing the surgical attire to the outside environment that has comparatively higher number of bacteria in air is one the major cause of nosocomial infections acquired during invasive procedures. For instance, the pathogens if directly exposed to the place of incision e.g as in laparoscopy. The number of bacteria multiply by thousands of times more rapidly as compare to the normal exposure and this exposure cause lethal infections at surgical site.Those patients who are undergoing some Invasive procedures are very much vulnerable to nosocomial infections. There may be many reasons but one I observed is due to keep wearing the surgical attire out of the operation theatre. The standard operating procedure is that it Must not be used again if entering in the surgery room. But, some of the OT staff do not care and they use it without laundering .There OT dress become one the major cause of nosocomial infection. HROs do not neglect Such negligence but it is common in those healthcare facilities that

First of all, I looked up what are the steps that CHI St. Joseph Health Regional Hospital takes to avoid harm. According to Leap Frog Group the survey mainly focused on if the workers of this hospital clean their hands before seeing a patient to keep the harmful bacteria from spreading. They also focused on how well the workers communicate with their patients to provide correct medication information and how effectively do the workers work together. To identify all this information the Leap Frog Group made a survey containing eight of safety procedures out of 34

Many attendants in healing facilities are accessible if the need arises a considerable measure. Nursing likewise has its dangers; you may watch over patients with irresistible illness. Attendants should dependably utilize standard safety measures to stay away from irresistible disease.

In following this approach the hospital must understand the risks associated with it. As hospitals seek to compete, they must recognize the environment in

The movie, “Patch Adams,” is a comedy that illustrates the true store of Hunter Patch Adams. The film is very entertaining and enjoyable to watch; also, the movie brings to life daily healthcare issues. A healthcare issue dementated by the movie featured the many possible safety risks patients had to endure, while receiving treatment at the Medical school’s hospital. A healthcare facility is a place that should promote the well-being of patients by providing clean and safe conditions for recovery. Patient safety problems include: no hand washing, no identification for patients who are at risk of falling, and patients without insurance are forced to leave without treatment. Expectations must be implemented to improve the safety of patients; therefore, processes must be updated enhance patients’ quality of care.