Clostridium Difficile Teaching Report

Better (2007), by Atul Gawande begins with the story of Dr.Gawande as a surgeon in his final year in medical school. The first struck me because of the patient’s story. It was an elderly patient who nearly died from septic shock had it not been for a senior resident who checked on the patient twice each time making a life altering intervention to prevent the patient with pneumonia from going septic shock from resistant, fulminant pneumonia. Dr.Gawande discusses the importance of handwashing. In my own practice, this is something that I can incorporate in my own practice.

Posters can be provided for each nursing station and all clinicians can be provided with hard-copy brochures and required to watch the CDC’s video presentation for clinicians concerning the importance of handwashing as part of an overall strategy for reducing nosocomial infection rates. This health promotion activity would be ongoing, with new materials being added as they become

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Hand-hygiene compliance has been a part of healthcare practice since the early 1840s. During 1840s in Europe, the term "childbed fever" came into use to describe a condition experienced by 25% of women who gave birth to babies (19). To combat the spread of this condition, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis educated people on the need for washing their hands with a chlorinated solution before examining women in labour (20). As a result of this hand-hygiene education, the mortality rate dropped to less than 1%, saving many people 's lives (20). Asking student nurses and volunteers to wash their hands before caring for a patient is similar to asking them not to text and drive.

The Hand Hygiene Australia has a concise observation form that addresses the WHO’s 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene, which can be obtained at http://www.hha.org.au/UserFiles/file/AuditTools/AuditSheet_2013_01_17.pdf. A hand hygiene champion will be designated for each unit to observe, be trained as to what to observe, and record data for the outcome evaluation. Observers will observe on units that are not their own, to prevent bias. Feedback will be obtained by an evaluation (Appendix E) by the staff after the presentation and then again once implemented. Suggestions from staff may help the project be more successful and avoid failure.

Furthermore, nurses have expressed concerns that open visitation exposes vulnerable, immunocompromised patients to an increased risk of infection.2,29 However, there is a limited amount of empirical evidence to support this claim.29 Moreover, in a prospective, observational study, examining the relationship between intensive care acquired infections and visitors, Malacarne et al found that there was no evidence of the pathogenic or colonized microorganisms on the visitors (n=90) of the patients (n=20) who tested

The importance of washing hands, proper cough procedure, disposal of tissue, etc. The students will then develop their own list of things they can do to help prevent illness. AL-ALEX.ELA.3.10 Students will be placed in pairs. Students will categorize the components of a hospital based on whether or not they are proper or common

“Don’t worry, you’ll be a phenomenal trauma nurse,” Ginny says, smiling, while doing an observation on the trauma unit floor. Glancing at Chiquita with sparkling green eyes, she continues,” You pretty much understand the concept of patient care and how nursing goes. Since you are an employee at Sentra already, you will be able to experience hands on with the trauma unit.” “Possible you are right Ginny, but I know my role as a Nursing Care Partner (NCP) and the hardship that comes with transitioning into the Trauma unit, however I know I need perform at a high expectation,” replies Chiquita, while exiting a patient room, they both reached over to receive some hand sanitizer to prevent the spread of any possible infectious diseases to other

In conclusion, hygiene is very important to reduce the spread of germs. The CDC and WHO have researched what proper hygiene can do and have made standards for washing hands in healthcare. My second solution was to implement a video and use a checklist. My overall project allowed many people to gain insight about hygiene, although the project itself will most likely not stick.

However, if washing hands is not that important to you, this activity will help to understand how easily germs can spread and may be change your outlook. I have some Glo Germ. Glo Germ is a visual aid that; “When used in either the powder or liquid-based form, with the use of an ultra-violet light, it simulates the spread of germs, teaching how quickly and broadly germs can be spread in a short period of time” (Glo Germ, n.d.).

A clean environment is equally important and in her time it actually led to a decrease in the mortality rate of the ill and injured soldiers in the Crimean War. Today, clean hands and clean environments lead to a decrease in the spread of harmful bacteria such as MRSA, C-DIFF, and other diseases. Prevention of these things always leads to favorable outcomes for our patients. Favorable outcomes are also seen when we help our patients achieve much needed rest, sleep, and proper nutrition. This is accomplished by changing their environment by decreasing excess noise, harsh light and ensuring patients get the proper food to aid in their healing process.

Throughout the day, I touch surfaces that contain germs from many different people. I could easily receive a sickness from any of those germs, but I lessen that risk by washing my hands. I can’t guarantee that I won’t get sick, but I can try and make the odds more in my favor. I am unable to make other people wash their hands so I control my actions and what I do. Since I don’t know what germs hide on surfaces, I choose to destroy whatever they may be by killing them with soap and water.

Examples of this would be school lessons about drugs at younger ages, with more specific examples of what taking the drugs will do. It’s more effective to tell a child, “don’t touch that stove because it will burn you,” than simply, “don’t touch that stove,” and the same goes with telling kids about drugs. About the doctors, maybe have scitrist check to see if their mental health is good enough to take the drugs, or to make sure the person they are giving the drugs lives with someone

According to the article this study was carried out at Presbytenan Health care services in Albuquerque, New Mexico which is a Case-control or cohort study. The main purpose of their study was to provide insight needed to overcome multifaceted barriers to noncompliance hand hygiene by health care workers. This article discuss that low hand hygiene compliance by healthcare workers increases hospital- acquired infection to patient. Healthcare workers’ unclean hands are the number one source of germ transmission and hospital-acquired infections (Carboneau, et al.,

To aid in this learning process, my instructor, Roberto, paired each patient care assistant (PCA) with two nursing students. I was expected to shadow the PCA and begin to learn how to provide basic care for the