The home has policies for using clinical waste, and how to dispose of it without making contamination a high risk. The home also has a policy for if infection such as Diarrhea and vomiting take place. The home has a standard of hygiene that the staff have to uphold. Clinical wastes should be put into a yellow bag and be tied up and placed into the yellow bin so that flies and other scavengers will not scatter them. Anyone who has suspiciously infected should not enter the workplace. Always wear PPE when doing the personal care. Foods in the refrigerator should be covered up and labeled and they should be served either cold or hot. Drinking water should always be fresh when put in a jug and covered. The flannels and towels of the residents should be changed daily and there should be separate set for the upper and lower parts of the body. Chairs and tables should be disinfected regularly especially in the dining room. Cleanliness must be a practice always. …show more content…
5. Describe procedures and systems relevant to the prevention and control of infection. When a resident is suspiciously infected, the senior staff-in-charge or the manager will immediately refer the case to the GP. The care home will carry out instruction from the GP. The staff are advised to wear PPE like gloves and disposable apron when dealing with the patient. The clothes of the patient wash separately. The patient will stay in his room until he is clear from infection. 6. Explain the potential impact of an outbreak of infection on the individual and organization. It is bad effect on the individual. If the infection is not addressed promptly, the individual may die and the risk of contamination to other persons in the organization is high. If the infection is not controlled for the shortest period of time, the CQC or Health Services might recommend the closure of the
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Alfred is a 65 years old man and was admitted with diarrhoea and generally unwell to the hospital. In the process of his admission he was isolated in a side room to prevent and reduce any risk of spreading infection. Alfred was a barrier nursed because he had clostridium difficile. He was isolated to lessen the hazard of spread of infections to other patients, visitors, and healthcare staff. Appropriate personal protective clothing such as aprons, gloves are to be worn before contact with him. Proper hand washing with soap and alcohol based hand gel was meant to be used before and after contact with Alfred to reduce transmission of infection. He requested for toileting and asked me to bring him a commode. I brought in the commode, placed it by his bed side for use and then assisted Alfred on it. I gave him the buzzer to press when he finished with his toileting. To sustain the privacy and dignity, procedures were carried out with doors and curtain shut around his bed
The medical assisting extern needed to wash her hands before preparing the room for a patient to prevent cross contamination.
During periods of the norovirus outbreak, adequate and specific nursing care is extremely important in order to care for the elderly in the aged care setting. Nursing care such as personal care and skin hygiene care is important. As residents become infected with the norovirus, their personal care plans need to be changed. Full personal protective equipment (PPE) such as eye protection, glasses, face shields, googles ,aprons and gowns must be worn while assisting affected residents. This is necessary because this protective equipment protects nurses from getting the virus therefore minimising the chances of it spreading (NSW Government, 2015). Nurses need to be able to perform hand hygiene with antiseptic soap for 20-30 seconds before assisting
These policies should be founded on best practice. Policies should be reviewed and revised as necessary to keep up with new research that can better the care being given. To amend a policy at this facility, the policy needs to be reviewed by the corporate office before being changed. Then staff need to be notified of the change and reeducated by staff development. The current policy in place does not include flossing a resident’s teeth and this is an issue that needs to be addressed. The policy does not include any education requirements related to oral care. It is not common knowledge for all staff that poor oral hygiene can lead to infection. Studies have shown oral care is performed more frequently after staff has received education (Hoben, 2017). Currently the policy does not reflect the roles of who should be performing dental hygiene. The nurse should be delegating this task to the CNA, the CNA performs the care, and then the nurse follows up as needed to ensure the proper care was performed adequately. Documentation is done on bathing, toileting, and feeding, it should be no different for mouth care. This would not be difficult to incorporate on the electronic point of care system that already exists (Klein, 2017). The care will be documented by the assistive personnel and the nurse will verify the care is being done
Safety is focused on reducing the chance of harm to staff and patients. The 2016 National Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals includes criteria such as using two forms of identification when caring for a patient to ensure the right patient is being treated, proper hand washing techniques to prevent nosocomial infections and reporting critical information promptly (Joint Commission, 2015). It is important that nurses follow standards and protocols intending to patients to decrease adverse
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Healthcare workers working in close proximity with infected patients are required to take various standard precautions. These standard precautions include hand hygiene, wearing personal protective equipment, appropriate management of sharps and waste and appropriate decontamination of the working environment. For their own protection, a healthcare worker must assume that all blood, body fluids and secretions from patients are potentially hazardous and my cause infection. If the appropriate precautions are taken, healthcare workers can prevent becoming infected with TB themselves (HSE/HSPC, 2010).
This literature review will analyze and critically explore four studies that have been conducted on hand hygiene compliance rates by Healthcare workers (HCWs). Firstly, it will look at compliance rates for HCWs in the intensive care units (ICU) and then explore the different factors that contribute to low hand hygiene compliance. Hospital Acquired infections (HAI) or Nosocomial Infections appear worldwide, affecting both developed and poor countries. HAIs represent a major source of morbidity and mortality, especially for patients in the ICU (Hugonnet, Perneger, & Pittet, 2002). Hand hygiene can be defined as any method that destroys or removes microorganisms on hands (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009). According to the World Health Organization (2002), a HAI can be defined as an infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other health care facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission. The hands of HCWs transmit majority of the endemic infections. As
I should comfort the nurse and ask to do hand hygiene and taught advantages of hand hygiene. Marram (2009) stated that healthcare professional team needs to constant communicate to plan strategies, solve problems and evaluate progress (pg.28-30). I learn that health professional team needs excellent interaction to provide excellent care of resident. According to Smith (2015), “leadership can successful by fair conversation with healthcare provider, staff, p-patient, regulator and insurance company. Without conversation, there is no management, without management; there is no success in our healthcare system”.
In health care facilities many sick patients are treated in isolated or confined spaces. This means that many microorganisms are present in these areas. Patients come in contact with many health care workers (HCW) who can potentially help the spread of these microorganisms and infections between their patients.
Medical asepsis plays an integral role in infection control within a health care facility. It includes procedures used to decrease and prevent direct contact with blood or bodily fluids and emphasizes keeping the environment clean on a regular basis (Curchoe, Astle, & Hobbs, 2014). In order to achieve optimal health, individuals depend on practices and techniques that control and ultimately prevent the transmission of infection. These practices and techniques can help avoid the transmission of infections by creating an environment that protects both health care workers and patients from communicable diseases. Good hand hygiene has been stressed as the single most important measure to prevent cross-infection to patients in health care facilities
...s and hoses, control buttons, switches, hand pieces, and X-ray units (Collins). After every patient’s visit, the operatory is to be sterilized and disinfected. All areas that were that were not covered with a barrier, or if the barrier was compromised, must be wiped down with surface disinfectants similarly used in hospitals. OSHA requires disinfectants to be potent enough to fight against HIV and HBV infections (Collins). If there is any blood present on a surface, tuberculocidal type disinfectant should be utilized.
Clinical Orientation was the concept of the week. Knowing what’s the importance of Hand washing or hang hygiene and knowing how to execute it well was the topic during the simulation day. It is about preventing to chain of infection from nurses to patients, family, friends and to the public. So nurses having a knowledge on how to execute hand washing properly makes the nurse to be aware of their own hygiene and the nurse would be able to provide individualised hygiene care. (Crisp et all, 2013) Knowing your way around to the hospital and knowing hand hygiene was the main focus of the clinical orientation.
Excellent hygiene in nursing homes is a must. Residents that live there can easily get sick due to their medical condition, or they have a poor immune system. With all different types of bacteria and germs spread throughout a day, residents can be affected in a negative way. So with personal experience and some research, I am able to present to you the importance of hygiene of the residents' in nursing home care.