infection control
Infection Prevention and Control
Kathleen E. Haertel,
Analysis of Nursing Research / Nur 518
April1, 2012
Mrs. Susan Steele- Moses
Abstract
Florence Nightingale was the first person to initiate the concept of infection prevention and control in Healthcare. Although she had no understanding about the science of asepsis, the research she did on the sanitary problems of the hospitals made her an unyielding advocate of pure water, pure air, cleanliness, efficient system of drainage, and light. A number of Nightingale’s writings explained the rancid situation she witnessed in various hospitals. She once stated, “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm” (health.nv.gov).
Discussion
In clinical practice, nurses can exercise infection prevention and control by meeting the standard statements which serves as guidelines.
To be more specific, let us consider the case of a nurse who not only practices in the hospital but also visits her clients at their home for providing them service.
A part from the hospital, she also practices the infection prevention and control even when she visits her clients at their homes. One of her client has an open wound on her abdomen, which usually drains. She took a sample for doing culture of her wound, which revealed that a methicillin resistant microorganism staphylococcus aureus exists in her wound. She meets the standards of infection control and prevention and tried to reduce the risk of transmission of infection to herself, the client and to the client’s immediate family member (since they were living in proximity to her), by following the below mentioned steps:
1. She identified the mode through which this microorganism transfers itself
2. After doing this. She applied the concepts of hand hygiene and chose an appropriate barrier, so that the microorganism cannot transfer itself to others.
3. By applying the principles
Kathleen E. Haertel,
Analysis of Nursing Research / Nur 518
April1, 2012
Mrs. Susan Steele- Moses
Abstract
Florence Nightingale was the first person to initiate the concept of infection prevention and control in Healthcare. Although she had no understanding about the science of asepsis, the research she did on the sanitary problems of the hospitals made her an unyielding advocate of pure water, pure air, cleanliness, efficient system of drainage, and light. A number of Nightingale’s writings explained the rancid situation she witnessed in various hospitals. She once stated, “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm” (health.nv.gov).
Discussion
In clinical practice, nurses can exercise infection prevention and control by meeting the standard statements which serves as guidelines.
To be more specific, let us consider the case of a nurse who not only practices in the hospital but also visits her clients at their home for providing them service.
A part from the hospital, she also practices the infection prevention and control even when she visits her clients at their homes. One of her client has an open wound on her abdomen, which usually drains. She took a sample for doing culture of her wound, which revealed that a methicillin resistant microorganism staphylococcus aureus exists in her wound. She meets the standards of infection control and prevention and tried to reduce the risk of transmission of infection to herself, the client and to the client’s immediate family member (since they were living in proximity to her), by following the below mentioned steps:
1. She identified the mode through which this microorganism transfers itself
2. After doing this. She applied the concepts of hand hygiene and chose an appropriate barrier, so that the microorganism cannot transfer itself to others.
3. By applying the principles
References: Data Retrieved, Jan 13, 2012, from health.nv.gov/PDFs/Infections/ISPC.pdf Cozad, A., & Jones, R. (2003), Disinfection and the Prevention of Infectious Disease, American Journal of Infection Control, (31); 243-254. The World Health Organization, (2002), Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control, Retrieved, Jan 13, 2012, from, http://www.who.int/docstore/water_sanitation_health/wastemanag/ch16.htm