the hospital is minimal. However, in the United States the risk for gaining a hospital-associated infection has become a serious concern and a costly one at that. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that hospital-associated infections have cost an estimate of 35.7 to 45 billion dollars to United States hospital when 20% of these infections could have been preventable with the correct interventions. One of the most common hospital-associated infections has become hospital-acquired
Pneumonia is an infection that causes the air sacs in one or both of the lungs to become inflamed. These air sacs are responsible for gas exchange. When they are filled with fluid or pus this causes a cough and difficulty of breathing. Many things such as aspiration, a prolonged hospital stay, bacteria, fungi, or viruses including the common cold can cause pneumonia. Some of the risk factors for developing pneumonia are age greater then 65, weakened immune system, smokers, chronic diseases, or people
Pneumonia Journal Article Kellie Hale Mohave Community College NUR 122 Mrs. Port 9/8/2016 “In 2012, 1.1 million people were hospitalized in the US for treatment of pneumonia. The average hospital stay for these patients was 5.2 days. There were close to 50,000 deaths due to pneumonia and 95% of them were over the age of 65 (“Pneumonia”, 2016). Pneumonia is an serious condition and the pathogens that lead to pneumonia continue to spread throughout the hospitals and communities. Antibiotic
Pneumonia is an inflammatory process of the lung parenchyma, usually infections in origin. Pneumonia causes your lungs by filing extra mucus and become inflamed. Which could decrease the lungs ability then normal lungs to take in air (Eagan pg. 506). Pneumonia is separated in three different classes and they are Community acquired Pneumonia which is also known as (CAP), Nosocomial pneumonia or Healthcare associated pneumonia and hospital acquired pneumonia, which is also known as (HCAP) and ventilator
will disappear in a few days with rest and drinking lots of water. What if it was Pneumonia? A leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide, due to the multiple pathogens that cause the disease, both bacterial and viral. In a year, between 5-10 million people develop pneumonia in the United States, 1 million of whom are admitted in hospitals, with an estimated 45,000 deaths annually. What is Pneumonia? Pneumonia is the inflammation of the pulmonary parenchyma. It can be caused by both bacterial
literature review is to assess and appraise research studies in the last five years, investigating the latest management of community acquired pneumonia in immunocompromised adults patients. A literature search was performed using CINAHL Plus, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, EBSCOhost, UpToDate and PubMed databases. Boolean terms included: community acquired pneumonia, pneumonia, immunocompromised, adults, management, treatments, preventions, effectiveness, antibiotics, promotion, and outcomes. For each database
associated with, a nosocomial infection, making these infections the sixth leading cause of death in the United States (Peleg, Hooper). Nosocomial infections, also known as “hospital-acquired infections”, are infections acquired during hospital care that were not present before admission. Infections occurring within 48 hours of hospital admission, 3 days of discharge or 30 days of an operation can also be classified as nosocomial (Inweregbu, Dave, Pittard). These infections are most commonly found in intensive
According to MedScape, hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is defined as, “…a lung infection that begins in a nonintubated patient within 48 hours of admission” (Cunha). On Monday, February 9th; I worked on the Cardiac floor in Mercy. Receiving report at 0630 that morning, I learned I would be taking care of a 30 year old male, who had recently undergone an aortic valve replacement and shortly after acquired pneumonia assumed to be hospital related. He was thereafter transferred to the cardiac unit
Hospital acquired infections are one of the most common complications of care in the hospital setting. Hospital acquired infections are infections that patients acquired during the stay in the hospital. These infections can cause an increase number of days the patients stay in the hospital. Hospital acquired infections makes the patients worse or even causes death. “In the USA alone, hospital acquired infections cause about 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths per year”(secondary). Nursing diagnosis
Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are preventable and pose a threat to hospitals and patients; increasing the cost, nominally and physically, for both. Pneumonia makes up approximately 15% of all HAI and is the leading cause of nosocomial deaths. Pneumonia is most frequently caused by bacterial microorganisms reaching the lungs by way of aspiration, inhalation or the hematogenous spread of a primary infection. There are two categories of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP); Health-Care Associated
Pneumonia In The Geriatric Pneumonia in the elderly is something that needs to be taken very seriously in this day and age. According to the Center Of Disease Control, statistics say that over 800 million seniors above the age of 65 are at risk for pneumonia. They also say that 1 out of 20 adults that get pneumonia die. What is pneumonia? “Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be caused by fungi, virus, bacteria, and many other germs,” says Dr. Norman Edelman, the chief medical officer
Barker, 2013). The public agencies such as CMS have periodically made drastic changes to their reimbursement policies. In 2003, the CMS began the hospital quality initiative and Home Health quality Initiatives ( Denisco & Barker, 2013). The hospital quality initiative mainly focused on Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), heart failure ( HF), and pneumonia( PNE). The home health quality initiatives also focused on quality measures for individuals receiving home care services ( DeNisco & Barker, 2013)
A fall can results into extended stay in the hospital because it may result in head or internal bleeding, fractures, lacerations or a penetrating injury. Nurses are given the task to identify patients who are at increased risk of falling and modify their care based on that risk. Family members and patients
dysphagia or difficulty swallowing. Within the acute care hospital setting it is the responsibility of nurses to ensure screening for swallowing occurs before anything including water is given orally (NPO). Within the current state of medicine there is no screening tool based on best practices and evidence endorsed by a accrediting entity. This leaves hospitals and nurse research leaders to determine amongst the many published hospital-based studies the best screening tool to utilize in their clinical
present in the sputum. The x-ray was a big piece of evidence to figuring it all out. The patchy areas narrowed things down with pneumonia and tuberculosis. The ELISA test was what allowed the doctor to make his diagnosis. The ELISA test revealed there were antibodies present for the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Bono, 2018). The doctor knew this meant John had walking pneumonia, also known as atypical
the financial aspect of the organization. As time changes, there are more acute illnesses being presented in the hospital as a result of the patient prolonging to seek medical treatment. The delay in seeking medical treatment often stems from the patient not having health insurance and seeking home remedies as an alternate method of treatment. When the patient present to the hospital with multiple acute illnesses, the staff should be skilled, ready and available to render the necessary treatment
NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION A hospital-acquired infection (HAI), also called nosocomial infection in medical literature, is an infection whose growth is favored by a hospital environment. It may be acquired by a patient while visiting hospital or it may spread among hospital staff. Nosocomial infections include fungal and bacterial infections and are triggered by the decrease in resistance of a person. TYPES Modern healthcare employs many types of invasive contrivances and procedures to treat infected
Reducing Hospital Readmission Rough Draft Hospital Readmissions Are Costly To the Patient and the Nation Hospital readmissions are costly and expose patients to hospital acquired infections prolonging the length of stay and decreasing the quality of life. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 2014 report highlighted that as of 2011, the major causes of a 30 day hospital readmission are attributed to congestive heart failure, septicemia and pneumonia. Furthermore, the cost of readmission
Klebsiella Pneumoniae Klebsiella pneumonia is a gram-negative, encapsulated, lactose-fermenting, non-motile, facultative anaerobic, urease positive, indole-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that is in the Enterobacteriaceae family (Tufts University, n.d.). Klebsiella is typically found in the nose or mouth, gastrointestinal tract (CDC, 2012). Klebsiella pneumonia was first discovered in 1882 as a pathogen that caused pneumonia (). Klebsiella can cause various types of health-related infections in the
virus. In the first hospital and pneumonia in the hospital which specialized in children’s care. 2. Addie may have become infected with the resistant staphylococcus bacteria in the playground while playing with her friends. 3. Addie acquired Stenotrophomonas bacterial infection in the hospital. She acquired it from the tubes of the lung bypass machine ECMO which doctors used to try and support her respiration after her