study that I chose to critique is on infections related to patients’ bath basins. The purpose of this patient bath basin study was clearly stated. “Is Patients’ Bath Basin as Potential Sources of Infection: A Multicenter Sampling Study?” Infections can arise from many sources, typically transmitted in the hospital or hospice. Just the touch of an infected person, such as one with MRSA can easily transmit to any object, making any person susceptible to that infection. Nurses and staff members often touch
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The prevalence of nosocomial infections is a concern in our health care. Infections are becoming more virulent and resistant to antibiotics which make it harder to treat. Patients are more vulnerable to nosocomial infections the longer they stay inpatient in the hospital. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates 1 in 25 patients will acquire an infection during their hospital stay. In 2011, the CDC surveyed and reported there are 721,810 infections in an acute care hospital (Center for Disease
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INTRODUCTION ‘An infection is the entry and multiplication of an infectious agent in the tissues of a host. If the infectious agent fails to cause injury to cells or tissues, the infection is asymptomatic. If the pathogens multiply and cause clinical symptoms, the infection is symptomatic and once the infectious disease is transmitted directly from one person to another, it is a communicable or contagious disease. The presence of a pathogen does not mean that infection will begin. Development of
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STREAM INFECTIONS Research Critique Tom Jones Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi School of Nursing Nursing Research 5314 Fall 2005 Research Critique Introduction Blood stream infections associated with central venous catheters account for approximately 250,000 infections in the United States annually. The vast majority of these infections are preventable through education on best practice (Coopersmith et al., 2004). Best practice principles include hand washing, maximum
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Policies and Procedures: Hand Washing Every healthcare institution has to follow certain policies and procedures in order to ensure best patient outcome. Nurses follow procedures on the floor that institutional policies are put into practice. It is necessary that the policies and procedures drafted must be something that is clear, can be measured and enforced that it helps practitioner to understand the importance and effectiveness of the policy
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antibiotics, making this pathogen dangerous. MRSA infections are most commonly found in hospitals. MRSA greatly increases
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Improving Hand Hygiene Practices 1.0 Introduction Health-related infections account for about 100,000 deaths per annum in the United States. A world-wide systematic review revealed that the occurrence of health-related infections range from between 1.7 to 23.6% per 100 patients. Hospital costs inherently associated with the healthcare-related infections range between 30 to 34 billion US dollars; yet these infections can be prevented through hand hygiene. Critical epidemiologic evidence supports
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caregivers to help them understand, plan, evaluate, and improve the quality of patient care. In the acute care hospital setting there are ongoing measurements of such things as patient satisfaction, hand washing compliance rates, catheter acquired urinary tract infections, and central access infection rates, just to name a few. The collection of this data involves descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and levels of measurements. Acute care hospitals use descriptive statistics
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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
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Performance Assessment Task Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the infrastructure of health care. Infection control and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society
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