Running head: Kevin Holland
Kevin Holland Clostridium difficile is becoming a major problem inside of hospitals. There are many reasons as to why the bacteria is becoming a top priority while treating patients mainly inside of the hospital setting. Hospital-induced infections, lack of a proper diet, and even when people do not perform proper hygiene is causing this bacteria that is considered normal biota, to flourish and cause gastrointestinal distress. Bacteria have spent millions of years growing and their whole goal is to keep doing that. A common symptom of Clostridium difficile is diarrhea (Aberra & Curry, 2017). It can affect patients in hospitals drastically due to the inability of their bodies absorbing nutrients needed to help them.
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They are vitally important at breaking down food and help keep other biota in check. Sometimes antibiotics are taken by patients for issues that are completely unrelated to C. difficile. When the bacteria are given an a chance to grow more than normal, they will pounce on the opportunity, like most other bacteria. When dealing with C. difficile, special precautions must be taken in order to keep it in check and keep ourselves feeling happy and healthy. Humans must understand that we cannot stop all bacteria from doing what they do best, which is grow and adapt to their current environments to their full capability. Healthcare professionals must talk to their patients about possible side-effects of drugs they are taking and make sure they understand what can happen. In doing so, patients may start to understand why something is happening to them and it is a normal side-effect, which can not only lead to trust from the patients to providers, but can lead to the passing of knowledge from one to another which may prevent future …show more content…
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This time with stomach pains, diarrhea, and bloating. Viewing the bacteria in their gut during week 7, there is a new type of bacteria called C. difficile. This bacteria can cause deadly infections. It was developed in this persons gut becuase of all the empty space. It invaded it's way into their gut and rapidly started to multiply.
Clostridium Difficile Infection Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) infection is a condition that causes inflammation of the large intestine (colon). This condition can result in damage to the lining of your colon and may lead to colitis. This condition can be passed from person to person (contagious). CAUSES C. diff is a bacterium normally found in the colon. This condition is caused when the balance of C. diff is changed and there is an overgrowth of C. diff.
Aza is so focused on a very rare disease called Clostridium Difficile (diff C) that she is
Northwell Health created a special Task Force focused on reduction of sepsis related deaths in the Emergency Department, as stated in the article “Reducing Sepsis Mortality.” The goal is to teach medical staff to recognize the signs and symptoms within an hour of patients arriving to the Emergency Department. This recognition then leads to a course of specific actions, such as, “ Early administration of antibiotics to septic patients, returning serum lactate test results to physicians, who could identify severe sepsis, starting empiric fluids quickly and appropriately,” as explained by Friedman, Gallo, Riebling and Doerfler. Northwell Health’s dedication and desire to improve the outcome of these patients lead to an understanding of the need
Monday as all past weeks has been one day a little hard for me as I am always nervous and I feel like I will not know how to act if an emergency situation arises. I was not able to sleep all night thinking about what I was going to find next day on the third floor. Today was a very exhausting day. Filled with many challenges and new things for me. It was the first time that I was with someone who had caution precaution because of C diff or Clostridium difficile infection and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.
The causative agent in clostridium difficile is a spore forming bacteria, which can be “transferred to patients mainly via the hands of healthcare personnel who have touched a contaminated surface or item” (CDC, 2015). Reasons such as these, is why it is important to teach patients about why they are on contact isolation, and why maintaining thorough hand hygiene is essential for stopping the spread of the disease throughout the hospital. Before the teaching took place, the patient was asked if any previous knowledge was held about the topic of clostridium difficile. The patient claimed no one had explained any part of the disease process or what changes needed to be made on the patient’s end of care. The patient had never had any exposure to this disease, however, the patient seemed rather eager, and was pleased that time was being taken to teach about the importance of containing clostridium
Using of а standardized Clostridium difficile module for healthcare providers and the patients in addition to printable and electronic materials. The module was presented at a variety of quality, leadership, nursing liaison, and interdepartmental meetings. The information that will be provided will include information about the epidemiology of the infection, risk factors, and the clinical findings that associated with the infection, strains that are epidemic, control measures, and hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection
Department of Health and Human Services established an objective for Healthy People 2020 to prevent HCAIs, this reflects that the U.S. health care system is committed to and serious about solving this issue. These objectives address two extremely important topics, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Also, there are other major causes of HCAIs that Health and Human Services is working on their prevention such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) associated with catheters, infections of surgical wounds and sites, C. difficile infections, and ventilator-associated Pneumonia. Researches done on HCAIs shown that we can prevent many of these infections by implementing effective strategies to eradicate it, adapting some advanced prevention tools, and following new prevention approaches. There should be a more focus on HCAIs prevention in acute care settings.
Microorganisms are everywhere; organisms that are so small to be seen with the human eye cover the entire planet, including humans. Some of these microbes help with digestion of food other actually protect humans and other organisms from harm. Some however are deadly. Botulism for example is a deadly assassin hiding until the time is right to strike. Botulism is so good at its job that it can be easily misdiagnosed as other medical disorders.
As the Infection Control Representative part of the role’s responsibilities is to ensure the policy and procedures for infection control are being implemented by staff and that these procedures are being performed correctly. This will require education and training sessions to be held on a regular basis especially after an audit on staff members discovers staff breaching these infection control policies. These education sessions may have to be run more than once and over a couple of weeks, due to the facility operating twenty-four hours a day; therefore staff will not be able to attend altogether due to rosters. Once the times have been organised a venue will be required if a room is not available on the ward this may have to booked in another
Infectious diseases have the potential to kill a patient within hours of infection. However, it takes, on average, four days to identification process. Hospital patients are overmedicated due to the wait time for infection analysis. It is not determined till days later if they have a bacterial or viral infection; and as such if the patient needs antibiotics or symptom treatment. This excessive medication has led to the deaths of patients; on average 440,000 patients die a year (in the United States) from preventable errors, including overmedication.
Introduction What is antibiotic resistance? According to the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (2014), “Antibiotic resistance occurs when an antibiotic has lost its ability to effectively control or kill bacterial growth.” In other words, the antibiotics no longer work because they are resistant to the bacteria. This happens when an antibiotic is used inappropriately, or too frequently. If we continue to misuse antibiotics our bacteria will continue to be more resistant, to the point of not being able to fight off our source of illnesses whatsoever.
Problem and Rationale The purpose of the study is to determine, in the acute care burn and trauma population, is to determine if the application of obtaining early wound cultures as compared to not obtaining early wound cultures has a significant impact on identifying primary central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) versus secondary bloodstream infections associated with wound infections. Bloodstream infections are a considerable concern for all hospitalized patients exposed to the intervention of central lines used as a means to provide intravenous fluids and medications (CDC, 2011; McLaws, 2012) The complications associated with central line associated infections contribute significantly to mortality and morbidity in the
Title of the proposal: Chronic diarrhea in the outpatient department: evaluation of demographic and clinical characteristics. Background: Chronic diarrhoea in adult is a common gastrointestinal disorder that is characterized by various degrees of abdominal pain and diarrhoea. Most patients have long-standing symptoms [1]. It is defined as the abnormal passage of three or more loose or liquid stools per day for more than four weeks [2]. This definition based on symptoms led to an overlap between functional bowel disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome [3] and organic causes.
Histopathology consistent with Crohn’s disease (epitheloid granuloma of Langerhans type or transmural discontinuous focal or patchy inflammation) 4. Fistula and/or abscess in relation to affected bowel segments. Copenhagen Diagnostic Criteria for UC (all three of the criteria present) [26, 28]: 1. History of diarrhoea and/or rectal bleeding and pus for more than one week or repeated episodes 2. Characteristic endoscopic findings of continuous ulceration, vulnerability or granulated mucosa 3.