have to protect yourself‚ staff and your patients by washing your hands frequently. The article “hand hygiene: It does make a difference‚” written by Maryellen Guinan and Maryanne McGuckin‚ discusses the importance of handwashing and the steps of properly washing your hands. Handwashing is a skill that is especially important in health care facilities. Some examples of when hand washing should be used is whenever coming into contact with patients‚ after contact with intact skin‚ before donning sterile
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Communicable Disease Nursing Study Bullets Communicable Disease Nursing DRUG OF CHOICE Tetanus: PEN G Na; DIAZEPAM (Valium) Meningitis: MANNITOL (osmotic diuretic); DEXAMETHASONE (anti-inflammatory); DILANTIN/PHENYTOIN (anti-convulsive); PYRETINOL/ENCEPHABO L (CNS stimulant) Rabies Vaccines: LYSSAVAC‚ VERORAB Immunoglobulins: ERIG or HRIg DIAGNOSTIC TESTS Tetanus: WOUND CULTURE Meningitis: LUMBAR PUNCTURE Encephalitis: EEG Polio: EMG; Muscle testing Rabies: Brain biopsy (Negri bodies) Fluorescent
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when providing food and drink for individuals 1.1 Potential food safety hazards when preparing‚ serving‚ clearing away and storing food and drink: As part of making sure that the environment is a helthy and safe one‚ settings must develop good handwashing and personal hygiene rountines for staff and for children. When preparing food you must wash your hands before preparing feeding bottles‚ before food is prepared and served‚ after touching raw meat and poultry and before eating and drinking. Setting
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GROUP 7 BACKHOME ACTION PLAN “Providing Sanitation Equipment for the improvement CTHRM comfort rooms” Submitted by: Leader: Angelica Sayson Members: Mellicent Fernandez Diane Salen Gevara Submitted to: Prof. Engr. Renato Vergara Submitted on: December 13‚ 2013 (Friday) INTRODUCTION Sanitation is the hygienic means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes as well as the treatment and proper disposal of sewagewastewater
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Cheslee Morgan Felux Period 4 January/February 2013 “If I rub my hands with it‚ soap foams‚ exults… The more complaisant it makes them‚ supple‚ Smooth‚ docile‚ the more slobbers‚ the more Its rage becomes voluminous‚ pearly… Magic Stone! The more it forms with air and water Clusters of scented grapes‚ Explosive… Water‚ air and soap Overlap‚ play At leapfrog‚ form Combinations less chemical than Physical‚ gymnastical‚ acrobatical Rhetorical? There is much to say about soap.”
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NIGHTINGALE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR CURRENT COMPLIANCE STATUS FOR INFECTION CONTROL STANDARDS UNDER JAHCO. May 07‚ 2011 Nightingale Community Hospital Mission Nightingale Community Hospital provides professional care that ensures total security and satisfaction to those who wish to benefit from our care. Out of concern
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Introduction: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) are one of the most costly occurring nosocomial infections seen today. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) (2015) stated that the risk of developing CAUTIs is 3%-7% in the acute care setting‚ and CAUTIs comprise 40% of all institutionally acquired infections with an 8% prevalence rate seen in the home care setting. The CDC (2015) further implied that more than 1 million patients who either resides in an acute-care hospital or extended-care
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(hygieneguidebooklet) Premises must have adequate ventilation‚ lighting and drainage. Handwashing facilities and toilets Toilets must not open directly where you handle food. You must have a suitable number of toilets connected to an effective drainage system. You must have hand wash only sinks with hot and cold running water‚ soap and suitable
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the point of showing Lady Macbeth’s insanity--her repetitive handwashing and other symptoms of distraction--in a play with supernatural events and "causes" that are so obviously meant to be taken seriously? Why is it Lady Macbeth who suffers this fate while Macbeth does not? And how does Macbeth take the death of his beloved wife? The purpose of showing Lady Macbeth’s insanity is to show the changes within her. The repetitive handwashing act contrasts with her saying of “A little water clears us
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Application of Effective Communication – YJT Task 1 Part A Sonya Hammons Western Governors University YJT TASK 1 Part A 2 Abstract This paper outlines the topic I have chosen to cover for application Task 1 Part A for the course Effective Communication. The topic to be used as the basis of my presentation is the importance of educating parents of preschool and school age children the necessity of teaching proper hand washing techniques and habits at the earliest possible
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