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Reflective Essay Word count 1‚000 Placement ‚ Infection Control Team Dip/HE Adult Nursing 02/09 This reflective essay is based upon my experience working alongside the Infection Prevention and Control Support Nurses at the general hospital. As part of my learning experience as a 2nd year student nurse is to accompany the infection control nurses when visiting the wards The role of the IPCSN involved teaching‚ educating and advising all disciplines across
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(Rough Draft) Genetically Engineered Food Should people be worried about genetically engineered/modified food? Many people are starting to question what it is exactly that they are eating and how it could possibly harm them. Specifically‚ the harm that could befall them from GM food. A genetically modified organism is something that received one or more genes from another organism. There are three arguments that the people worried about GM food put on the table; those arguments being: GM food
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Innovation and technological advancement are two reasons why humanity has come so far from its origins. However‚ could one of mankind’s breakthroughs lead to its downfall? Sickness has its place in history as one of the most prolific killers of people. The Black Plague in the Middle Ages wiped out significant human populations. In the present‚ research in medicine has brought forth antibiotics – a way of stopping harmful bacteria from infecting a person. Growing concern is centered on the fear that
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How Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are Dangerous to People and the Environment Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) is facilities designed to raise animals such as swine‚ until they are the right size to be slaughtered. There are roughly 257‚000 CAFO’s in the U.S. and each one slaughters approximately 27million hogs in a year. Hogs live by the thousands in warehouse like barns‚ in rows of pens. Workers put so many hogs in one pen that they trample each other to death. In the barns
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Dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance is an after effect of genetic material transfer from species to species and within species. Egression of Strains like VREF (vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis)‚ MRSA (Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) add complexity to current drug resistance problems. Use of broad spectrum antibiotics as medicational strategies transforms them from its normal state as gut commensal to leading nosocomial pathogens (6)
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protozoa‚ yeasts or multi-cellular organisms such as fungi or worms. They live in or on a host to obtain nourishment without providing any benefit to the host. 1.2: The common illnesses and infections caused by bacteria are Salmonella‚ E coli and MRSA. Viruses are Aids‚ Hepatitis A‚ B and C as well as the common cold. Fungi illnesses include Athletes’ foot. Illnesses caused by parasites are Scabies‚ Malaria and Lyme disease. 1.3: Infection begins when an organism enters the body‚ growing and multiplying
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Microbiology‚ Test 3 Study Guide Chapters 14‚ 15‚ 16 and 17 Chapter 14 This chapter is about the principles of disease and epidemiology. Epidemiology – the science that studies when and where diseases occur and how they are transmitted. CDC‚ Atlanta‚ tracks and traces diseases. ONE World (the idea that it’s all in one place‚ it could happen anywhere; locally‚ states‚ large counties track the incidences and occurrences of disease)
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Surgical Site Infection Prevention Lisa M. Ehret Walden University NURS 4001‚ Section 5‚ Research and Scholarship for Evidence-based Practice October 19‚ 2014 Surgical Site Infection Prevention Surgical site infections (SSI) are infections acquired after a patient undergoes an invasive surgical procedure. A surgical site infection is considered a hospital acquired infection‚ and in the United States is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality from hospital acquired infections (Korol
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result in effective cleansing of all hand surfaces. Hospital acquired infections can be a result of bad hand hygiene. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the hospital infections that can be picked up from the hospital environment‚ mainly because patients’ defence systems are low. Platt AT (2001) states that MRSA is becoming more prevalent‚ especially in intensive care environments. Transmission can be prevented by all patients and healthcare workers following the same infection
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