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If you are planning on remodeling your home, you might be thinking about things like purchasing the building materials that you need and hiring the right contractors to do the job. One important but not-so-fun part of your project that you might not be thinking about, however, is how you are going to get rid of all of the garbage and debris from your project. One smart investment for your remodeling project is to rent a roll off dumpster, which can be both dropped off and picked up by a dumpster

Removing Pet Hair from Clothing, Furniture, and Floor For pet owners, cleaning up pet hair is a constant burden. If you’ve tried everything from duct tape to lint rollers to balloons with static electricity, you are not alone. Here are some tips for removing that stubborn pet hair. Rubber Gloves slightly moistened with water will attract the pet hair while running your hand over the surface of the furniture. Just rinse the gloves under water to remove the hair and repeat (test a small patch for water

The topics discussed in the brochure was the main challenge faced by people of the community when ill and taking to the hospital. Most nurses will fail to perform hand hygiene in carrying out procedures like indwelling catheter, wound dressing and so on thereby introducing and adding to the problems of the patients by bringing in pathogens. Health care associated infections (HAIs) are a major patient safety issue, resulting

promotion so history doesn’t repeat itself. We can learn from others past mistakes and triumphs. One important discovery was made by the Egyptians. They were known for their cleanliness at the time and the healthiest. They opened other people’s eyes to hygiene and in 1500 B.C. the Hebrews put together the world’s first written hygienic code. This explained the importance of keeping our bodies clean and how to protect it against contagious diseases. The Greeks continued with this and were one of the first

These infections not only aggravate a patient’s condition, but also extend the amount of time spent in the hospital. Equally important is the resistance that these microbes are developing against antibiotics making them more difficult to treat. Hand hygiene has been known to be the single most important factor in preventing the spread of HAI’s among hospitalized patients (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). Although hand washing is a simple task, healthcare providers still fail to

the spread of multi-resistant organisms (CDC, 2013). Hand hygiene is the routine use of hand washing, antiseptic hand wash, antiseptic hand rub, or surgical hand antisepsis (CDC, 2013). In the hospitalized patient the routine use of an alcohol-based antiseptic hand rub or antiseptic hand wash to remove or destroy any transient microorganisms and decrease resident flora

working as a dentist. I still wanted to pursue a career in the dental field so I decided to job shadow the dental hygienists. Watching the dental hygienists perform their duties and interact with patients made me want to pursue a career in dental hygiene. I knew very little about dental hygienists besides the fact that they clean teeth. As I spent time with the dental hygienists, I learned more each day. While researching for this paper, I became knowledgeable on even more information. From reading

faucet. In contrast, 84% of observed use of alcohol-based handrubs (AHRs) met CDC (2002) criteria. Substandard AHR use included not rubbing the AHR over the entire hand and not allowing the hands to dry before touching something/someone. Likewise, Kwok, Gralton, and McLaws (2015) found medical students touched their faces 23 times per hour, mouth 4 times per hour, and nose 3 times per hour. Given the high frequency of mucosal contact, HH is essential to prevent pathogen transmission and colonization

to prevent direct contact transmission to susceptible hosts and reduce the spread of a microorganism. However, where treatment is required, the clinician should wash their hands with antibacterial soap before and after patient contact as good hand hygiene is correlated with an estimated five million lives saved per year from enteric diseases alone (Curtis and Cairncross,

hand-washing. Different types of infection control precautions: -Medical and surgical aseptic techniques can be used to prevent the onset and transmission of a potential pathogen, and break the chain of infection. -Medical asepsis consists of “hand hygiene, barrier techniques (e.g., use of gloves mask, and gown), and routine environmental cleaning” (Griffin, 2016, pp.74) -Surgical Asepsis, which consists of maintaining a sterile environment in a surgical setting at all times; “a sterile barrier that