Clostridium Difficile is an infectious disease that is healthcare related requiring immediate attention by hospital staff. If left untreated this disease can become fatal. The mortality rate for patients that are diagnosed with severe Clostridium Difficile is 30 to 85 percent of patients that h better education for staff about the symptoms and means of spreading ‚ prescribing fewer antibiotics unnecessarily‚ and introducing ways to help the patient deal with the antibiotics‚ and berrer hand washing
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STUDENT NAME: _____________________________ DATE: ______ DISEASE PROCESS STUDY Purpose To provide a thorough review of a disease process at the cellular or organ level Link essential assessments and nursing care priorities to the client’s response to their disease process Disease Process: ________Pneumonia_____________________________________________ Pathophysiology at the Cellular or Organ Level Pneumonia is described in Tabers cyclopedia medical dictionary‚ “as inflammation of
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This could occur with antimetabolite drugs such as trimethoprim or sulfonamides. The fifth mechanism is that resistant cells will alter their metabolic chemistry or abandon metabolic steps. For example‚ cells may produce more enzyme molecules for an affected metabolic pathway to counteract the effects of the drug. This could occur with sulfonamides that inhibit metabolic
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aureus‚ E.faecalis and E. coli using the disk diffusion method‚ and compared to that of the clinically used antibiotics tetracycline and vancomycin‚ used as standards. Results can be seen as shown in Table 6. C5H20NNaO5S2 was particularly active to the multidrug-resistant strain S. aureus MRSA252‚ whereas the compound was moderately active against E. coli and E. faecalis. Butyl amine‚ from which C5H20NNaO5S2 was synthesized‚ showed only moderate activity
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(textbookofbacteriology.net). Staphylococcus epidemidis becomes pathogenic when the skin is broken or through contamination from medical procedure. Staphylococcus aureus are only able to invade via broken skin or mucous membranes. Staphylococcus aureus is very heat resistant and reheating foods will not destroy it‚ although the bacteria may be destroyed (www.sunysccc.edu). About 30 per cent of healthy humans are carriers of S. aureus‚ they have the bacteria on their skin without any active infection or disease. Staphylococci
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology CLASS CODE: MP202 SARA ASHOUR Signature ……………………………….. Date ……………………………….. Total Word Count 1492 I declare that‚ except where specifically indicated‚ all the work presented in this report is my own and I am the sole author of all parts. Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is an uncommon but serious systemic infection which can occur in males and females of all ages. Symptoms include fever‚ hypotension
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“super-bug” epidemic MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some antibiotics. In short‚ antibiotics have been used since the 40’s to stop the growth of bacteria. However‚ the more antibiotics are used‚ the quicker the bacteria become resistant to it while each year more types of bacteria adapt and become resistant to antibiotics. With MRSA being so resistant to many of the antibiotics‚ classifying it as a “super-bug”
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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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Teixobactin was also very active against Clostridium difficile and Bacillus anthracis‚ while also showing stronger bactericidal activity against S. aureus than the antibiotic vancomycin did. This indicated that teixobactin is a very strong antibiotic. On the other hand‚ most Gram-negative bacteria were not affected by teixobactin with the exception of E. coli asmB1. When further research was done‚ it was discovered that teixobactin
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Nursing Informatics Case Studies Week 6 Introduction to Informatics A client arrives in the emergency department with shortness of breath and complaining of chest pain. Describe how informatics can help nurses and other health care providers to more efficiently and effectively care for this client. Hebda‚ & Czar (2013)‚ define Medical as the use of information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice. An informatics can be used to help nurses and other health care
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