...Nails can say so much about the kind of person someone is. Clean nails will normally mean someone is healthy and takes care of him or herself well. Anxiety and stress can be seen through nails that have been bitten. How about cracked nails? If this is the case, then there must be some condition that needs to be addressed immediately. Cracked nails may mean there has been some repeated exposure to water. This can be from washing the dishes, bathing, swimming, and so on. But what can be done to fix them? Nail Nutrition If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then your nails are the windows to your health. When the nail appearance changes, it means that there must be something wrong. Lack of iron can easily be felt when the nail plates soften. This can be seen by a depression on the nail of the more dominant hand. If the person has low levels of zinc and calcium, then white spots can appear on the nails. If the nails are too brittle, then there must be a lack of biotin. These are just some of the things that the nail can show to a let a person know that there are some health issues at hand....
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...Appendix A Table 1: Hand Hygiene – Comparison of Guidelines |Source |When to Perform Hand Hygiene |Selection Of Agent |Technique |Other Relevant Aspects Of Hand Hygiene| |John Muir - Hand Hygiene Policy (2009) |Hands are visibly soiled |Soap and water are to be used|When washing with soap and water: |Healthcare workers to keep nails short| | |Prior to contact with pt diagnosed |to perform hand hygiene if |Stand close to sink, wet hands with water, |and clean | | |with C. Diff or viral |hands are visibly soiled |keep hands lower than elbow, apply soap and |The use of gloves does not mean that | | |gastroenteritis |Use alcohol based hand |lather thoroughly and wash hands. |you do not have to wash your hands | | |Before eating , after using |sanitizer is recommended when|Washing hands should take no less than 15 |Patients should also be given the | | |restroom, after wiping nose |a sink is not accessible or |seconds |chance to wash their hands before and | | ...
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...Nail Disease 1 - Paronychia Paronychia is a bacterial infection that occurs around the nails. The area around the nail fold can be inflamed, red and swollen and resulting in pustule cuticles. The main symptom is a painful, red, swollen area around the nail, often at the cuticle. There may be pus-filled blisters especially with a bacterial infection. It can be caused by injury to the area eg biting off or picking a hangnail or from trimming or pushing back the cuticle. It is also common among persons with diabetes and those who have their hands in water for long periods of time. Bacteria cause the condition to occur suddenly. Nail changes may occur. For example, the nail may look detached, abnormally shaped, or have an unusual colour. A medical practitioner can usually diagnose this condition by simply looking at the sore skin. Soaking the nail in hot water two to three times a day helps reduce swelling and pain. Antibiotics can be prescribed. In severe cases a medical practitioner may cut and drain the sore with a sharp instrument. Part of the nail may need to be removed. If it is fungal paronychia, antifungal medicine maybe prescribed. To prevent paronychia: ✓ Care for the nails and the skin around the nails properly. ✓ Avoid damaging the nails or fingertips. Because the nails grow slowly, an injury can last for months. ✓ Do not bite or pick the nails. ✓ Protect the nails from exposure to detergents and chemicals by using protective rubber...
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...Research Paper Rough Draft: How to become a Neat Nail Technician Looking around the room, I see an array of beautiful shades to choose from. Pastels with deep dark colors of nail polishes are sitting on organized shelves to be chosen. Sometimes a salon will have a strong stench of chemicals, mixed with the sound of nail buffing drills, and chatter too. However, getting a manicure and pedicure is still a relaxing retreat that many women, even men, look forward to. When I was a just a little girl, I became exposed to the art of nail design and a vast selection of polishes throughout the years of my mother’s influence. Painting nails, playing with false nails, and the experience in taking trips to the nail salon with my mother have become hobbies of mine ever since then. Thereafter, I realize that in order to become a professional nail technician, it will take hours of practice and training to obtain your license, and testing your skills in your new workplace. This topic is something interesting that I liked learning about, and I thought it would be great to be able to save money by doing own nails. “As a nail technician or manicurist, you will trim and polish clients' nails, repair broken nails, and apply nail extensions. Additionally, you will assess the...
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...factor because we have the care of another person in our hands and they are trusting us. I think it would be hard for a person to trust someone with their care if they are not dressed for the part. Its just not what you have one, it’s also about how you look over all. Its very important to make sure that you have the proper uniform on for being a MA. The proper uniform is a clean, ironed pair of scrubs. Scrubs are a type of clothing that is used by everyone in all fields of medical from doctors, pharmacists, Veterinarians, Nurses, Dentist, Dental Assistants, ect. You want to look and clean at all times, never wear scrubs that you were the day before or that look dirty. You also want to make sure you have on comfortable shoes that are a leather and black or white. Its very important to have a watch on also. It is something that you will need to have in order to do your job. If you look neat and clean then it will make the patients feel more comfortable with you caring for them. You also must make sure your hair is up and out of your face. This does not only help make you look neat and clean people can see your face better. Also you do not want your hair to get in the way when you are treating patients. It can get blood or urine in it from a patient, or it can just be in the way. It can also be a distraction and a irritant. Its also important that you do not have long nails, they also can get in the way. Most places do not allow fake nails due to the fact that they carry...
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...treatments; beauty salons provide more generalized services related to skin health, facial aesthetic, foot care, aromatherapy, — even meditation, oxygen therapy, mud baths, and many other services. ------------------------------------------------- Beauty treatments[edit] Massage for the body is a popular beauty treatment, with various techniques offering benefits to the skin (including the application of beauty products) and for increasing mental well-being. Hair removal is offered at some beauty salons through treatments such aswaxing and threading. Some beauty salons style hair instead of going to a separate hair salon, and some also offer sun tanning. Other treatments of the face are known as facials. Specialized beauty salons known as nail salons offer treatments such asmanicures and pedicures for the nails. A manicure is a treatment for the hands, incorporating the fingernails and cuticles and often involving the application of nail polish, while a pedicure involves treatment of the feet, incorporating the toenails and the softening or removal of calluses. ------------------------------------------------- Institut De Beauté or Spa salon[edit] The term Institut De Beauté or Spa salon refers to a beauty center where professional skin care treatments like facials are offered by a licensed and trained esthetician. They extract and cleanse skin by using proper professional skin care products and equipment such as...
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...THE IMPACT OF DIET ON HEALTH SAFE PRACTICE WHEN PREPARING, COOKING AND SERVING M3: DISCUSS THE EFFECTS OF UNSAFE PRACTICES WHEN PREPARING, COOKING AND SERVING FOOD IN A HEALTH OR SOCIAL CARE SETTING D2: ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAFE PRACTICES WHEN PREPARING, COOKING AND SERVING FOOD IN A HEALTH OR SOCIAL CARE SETTING In a health and social care sector , any health care worker who is in charge of preparing service users meal or whose job entails providing food for other people must ensure they know about the importance of food safety and hygiene so as to guide against food poisoning that are caused by bacteria and poor hygiene practices. It is also very important that safe practices are followed when preparing food for service users because of the effects unsafe practices may have on their health and wellbeing and also on the health care worker and can lead to complaints if basic hygiene rules are not followed. The effects of unsafe practices when preparing, cooking and serving food in a health or social care setting can cause food contamination in a variety of ways which could lead to food poisoning and can cause illness . Food poisoning are caused by Micro-organisms which includes bacteria, viruses and moulds found in food and can lead to stomach pains, diarrhoea and vomiting. Food contamination can occur in many different ways, such as: Physical, chemical and biological contamination. Physical contamination is caused by foreign or physical objects that come...
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...diseases precautions must be taken by practicing correct infection control guidelines. This would include; gloves, masks, proper wound care, correct disposal of contaminated products and handwashing (Kinn’s p 381). b. There are five major areas included in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance guidelines (Kinn’s p 386-391). i. Barrier Protection - wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). ii. Environmental Protection – reducing the risk of work related injuries. This can be done by isolating any physical or mechanical hazard. iii....
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...my positive behavior change? My main positive behavior change is learning to stop biting my nails. I’ve been biting my nails for a very long time and I haven’t really had any infections or anything of that sort. My grandmother has been telling to stop biting my nails ever since I was about seven years old and still haven’t stopped. Soon, as she sees me bite my nails she says, “I’ve been telling you stop and just won’t stop doing it”. Now that I’m older I felt it was time for change and why not stop the bad habit I been doing for ten plus years. I researched about nail biting and seen there’s more harm than good from doing it. To accomplish my goal of stopping I must stay positive and mentally focused on the task at hand. My secondary...
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...LAB 2- Hand washing Hand washing is the most integral part of health care`s universal precautionary rules, considering all exposures to human and animal samples is potentially hazardous and infectious. Exposure to potential infectious agents not only does it causes a diseases to the exposed person but it does also keep the line of infection for the agent to infect more and more people. Therefore, Hand washing is an important employee safety requirement in healthcare. There are crucial steps to be followed for a proper hand washing. I had a great experience at a hand washing short training where the trainer applied a starch powder and asked all of us to wash our hands. After we returned from washing our hands, the trainer examined our hands curvatures and skin under fluorescence light. It was proven that most of us didn’t know how to properly wash our hands. The steps for a proper hand washing is as follows: Consider removing all watches, rings from both hands, mostly microorganisms hide under those things. 1. Wet both hands and add enough soap to cover all hand surfaces. 2. Rub hands palm to palm right dorsum over left dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa. 3. Vigorously rub together all surfaces of the lathered hands including under nails and for at least 20seconds. 4. Rinse both hands well. 5. Dry hands completely with a clean dry paper towel from inside out and turn the water off using a dry paper towel. 6. use antiseptics and rub hands...
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...of your choice . 1. A device used to strike or deliver blows to an object like driving nails, fitting parts and breaking up objects. a, Hammer b. Plier c. Wrench d. Cutter 2. It is the most popular type of measuring tools which usually has 6 or 12 inches length. a. ruler b. speed square c. wrench d. Cutter 3. It is a curved and hand held aquaculture tool for harvesting grain crops or cutting grasses for hay. a. Shovel rake c. sickle d mattock 4. The most versatile and widely used shovel used for digging, scooping or shoveling dirt from one point to another. a. Irrigation shovel b. Round point shovel c. Garden shovel d. Scoop shovel 5. A device for measuring the weight of an object. a. Paper weight b. Measuring tool c. weighing scale d. square 6. A tool used to tighten or loosen screws. a. hammer b. Screw driver c. Wrench d. Pliers 7. Known to be hand operated tools. a. Shovel b. tools c. Pliers d. Hand tools 8. It can be like a compass with inward or outward facing points and the type can be adjusted to fit across the points to be measured. a. Caliper b. Folder ruler c. Ruler d. Square 9. Quality indicators of using screw drivers. a. Bade metals b. Handle and bar attachment c. screwdriver tips d. all of the above 10. The following are the guidelines to avoid hand tools injuries except a. A right tool for the job. b. good condition. c. Proper storage d. watch your body. 11. Is an excellent means of improving the performance...
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...magazine that have written on the exploitation of nail technicians. But the understanding of this abuse that immigrants especially in which women have faced have been documented since the 1920’s. Reformist women organization like the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) leaped into action to help resolve the problems of exploitation during that era. The NCJW lead by Cecilia Razovsky used to meet women immigrants and their families at the ships of Ellis Island. During her interaction with these women she would advocate for legal reforms of women citizenship, taught women how to read and write in English, and most importantly seek fair minimum wage for immigrant workers. (http://findingaids.cjh.org//CeciliaRazovsky.html). It is insane that in the 2000’s, women immigrants specifically nail technician are facing the same issues of exploitation of yester years. The nail salon industry is competitive, and its greatest selling point is low prices for services. However, that low price is not effecting the owners of these businesses bottom line because it is the workers that feel the pinch. Even more so if the worker is undocumented. The wage rate in New York is set to tip and non-tip employees regardless of immigration status. If you earn tips, then your pay should be at least $6.60/hour and $10.98/hour overtime. But if you do not receive tips you must make at least $8.75/hour and $13.13/hour for over time (NY workers Bill of Rights) . Nail technicians are customarily considered tipped...
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...Hand-hygiene and its importance in health care practice Presented by Ynotte Boatswain 10/28/2012 NRS-433V Grand Canyon University Professor: Jesy Chua The problems as seen in many hospitals today in the United States of America are the amount of hospital acquired infections (HAI’s) among patients and it cost to health care system and patients as a result of improper or poor hand hygiene. Many studies conducted by various researches such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Center of Disease Control (CDC), National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) between 1989 to present day by various authors who shows that hand hygiene plays a major role in controlling HAI’s and the cost of treatment with the amount of patients affected yearly. “ Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” The goal is that the field of infection control can and should be the leader in understanding how research findings can be efficiency and effectively translated into clinical practice, Goethe. How can hand-hygiene improve patient’s outcomes, improved patient’s satisfaction and how does poor hand-hygiene impacted the health care system, patient’s family life and many institutions. Many researchers used mixed...
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...marketing and customer relations. New business within the area could potentially take clients away from UMUC Haircuts without proper change. Concerns UMUC Haircuts has a steady customer return with scheduled appointments and many walk-ins. Due to scheduling conflicts with part-time employees the walk-in clients are often turned away. These clients can then go to one of the hair care places in the local area and this issue will dramatically increase once a the new Hair Cuttery opens up potentially taking clients away. Inventory management is non-existent with employees using supplies when needed and orders only happening on a “remembered” basis. If inventory of hair care supplies is depleted, employees will not be able to satisfy the consumer thus ensuring their return. Supply chain management is also in need of assistance. Due to UMUC Haircuts sporadic ordering habits and often under pressure orders, the lowest price is not always attained. UMUC Haircuts has no marketing plan in place and customer’s information is not recorded and no promotional offers happen. This too could potentially hurt a growing business. The business is trying to grow by adding a nail salon in the future. Five force analysis *Intensity of Competition/Rivalry – Hair Salons in the local area already provide the same services UMUC Haircuts offers. Currently, there is a nail salon directly across the street. *Threat of new...
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...PROBLEM: Nutrition Cues/Clues | Community Diagnosis | Goals/ Objectives of Care | Community Health Nursing Interventions | Rationale | Resources | Evaluation | | | | | | Manpower | Materials | Money | | - Severely underweight for children 14 months old. Actual Weight: 5 kg Child growth standard weight for a severely underweight child is 7.2 kg.-Evidence of lack of food | - Inadequate food intake both in quantity and quality related to | -Improve the weight of the severely underweight child toward the normal child growth standard levels-Raise the food quality and ensure adequate intake- Establish a diet plan that fits the child’s need | - Assess the chidl’s initial weight and monthly weight thereafter- Discuss with the parents some of the possible healthy food options that is within their budget- Coordinate with the Barangay Nutrition Scholar to include them in feeding programs | - To have a baseline data of the child’s weight and to see the improvement of the intervention- This ensures that the children are eating nutritious food that is good for their growth and development- Supplememntal feedings help in increasing the child’s weight | -BHW, BNS, Midwife, Nurses | - Leaflets, Pamphlets, Growth charts, pencil, papers | - Financial aid to be requested at the Barangay hall or Rural Health Unit | - The Goals are partially met because gaining weight takes time and continuous evaluations and modifications must be done before achieving this goal | or partitionurtian...
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