Why Bathroom Safety Should be a Priority Though your home is your haven and considered as your safest place, you can’t still deny the fact that some areas of your home pose risk to the general well-being and safety of your family. Accidents can happen all the time even if you are being careful. One of your home’s accident-prone areas is the bathroom where slip and fall accidents are common. It can cause injury to your family, render them immobile for a short period and it can hurt you financially. So to avoid these problems, you should consider bathroom safety as a priority. Why make your bathroom a safer area in your house Though you need to make every area of your home safe, you should prioritize making adjustments to your bathroom because of the following reasons. There’s no single day you don’t use a bathroom. Aside from your bedroom and kitchen, you spend most of your time …show more content…
Provide adequate lighting. Even if you have a 20/20 vision, your bathroom still needs adequate lighting as well as your bathroom hallways. Providing adequate lighting does not only help you to find things easier but you can also watch your every step and avoid slipping or falling. You can install LED lights instead of incandescent bulbs in your bathroom so that you can save electricity. Replace your regular bathtub with a walk-in tub. Climbing over the standard bathtub may seem easy for you as of now. However, when you get older, you’ll have weaker hips, legs and knees which will make it more difficult for you to get in or out the tub. Your little child may also experience difficulties and might slip and fall since he still has short legs. So to make it easier for everyone, replace your regular bathtub with a walk-in tub. A walk-in tub is a bathtub with a door that you can easily close and open so there’s no need to climb over the
After evaluating her existing bathroom, it was determined that the bathroom was too small for her to maneuver her wheelchair. Freda was also unable to independently transfer in and out of the bathtub or on and off the toilet. The option of reconfiguring the bathroom was discussed. Moving the shower/bathtub unit, toilet, and vanity would open up the center of the bathroom to allow Freda more space to turn her wheelchair and safely utilize the bathroom fixtures. Installing a barrier-free shower with a shower seat, grab bar, and handheld shower head would increase Freda’s independence with bathroom ADLs.
Although the bathroom was recently remodeled the step into the bathtub is very high, making it difficult for her to step into the tub. Often times she states that she feels as if she is going to fall when stepping in and out of the tub. Grab bars were installed but there is no anti slip surface on the tub to help aide in her balance. Additionally, her mother has stated concern that if MM were to start to fall that she may not have the upper body strength to hold onto the bar and pull herself to an upright position. Finally, once in the shower many of her products are one the highest and lowest shelf.
Everyone has the need to urinate and defecate; yet Americans find it appalling to speak of such a thing. We always close the door to the bathroom when we need to “do our business” and it is highly frowned upon to pass gas in front of others. It especially surprised Miner that when people became ill and had to go to the hospital, the privacy they once had was lost (Minor 1956). When a patient enters the hospital, they can no longer hide underneath their clothes and instead have to wear a hospital gown. Depending on the situation, a patient has to use a bedpan to urinate and move their bowels.
George Jenkins High School is known for their dreadful football team but mainly their revolting bathrooms. High School presents many struggles for teenagers. One of these struggles is prominent in the lives of all who appreciates going to the bathroom with cockroach’s crawling up your leg and urine all over the floor. Nobody in high school seems to understand simple etiquette and manners when using a bathroom. The ideals are often ignored and overlooked for the sake of getting to class on time.
Sometimes this can be a crappy place to work—literally. (One of Curtis’ many nonessential facts was sharing that “taking a crap” came from the name of the inventor of the toilet.) It’s not uncommon for students to take out their rage in the bathroom, often leaving the facilities in a sorry state. The annals of Harvest Valley lore have provided some disturbing bathroom epics. Many students have engaged in fireman fantasies (Gulliver) and hosed the place down.
(Document 6). Overcrowded homes are very unsafe. They cause fire hazards. If one person gets sick in the house it’s a major possibility everyone in the house gets sick. Overcrowded homes tend to get dirty fast.
Every year one person dies from an accident in a laboratory. More than 100 people get injured. These accidents occur because the people in these labs do not know the proper laboratory safety procedures. The lab safety rules provided do not prevent the many deaths and injuries that occur each year, schools do not take action until after some sort of accident occurs, and lastly, students and professionals are not informed how important lab safety is.
The second element was all falls happen when patient try to go bathroom and use bedside commode independently. These findings were also matched with report done by Johnson, George and Tran (2011) that 77 % of nearly 600 hospital falls in Australia were not witnessed and one third of falls occurred in bathroom. This study also pointed out the two common patient behaviors that can lead a patient to fail. The believes that he or she is capable of going to the bathroom independently is the first point. Second was the conscious decision trying get up without assistance and following appropriate instructions or procedures.
Introduction Patient safety is an important aspect of hospital care. Hospitals are entrusted to protect the patients, keep them safe while delivering a high quality care (Graham, 2012). As a result of announcements by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that hospitals will no longer be reimbursed for hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) or never events, such as inpatient falls. In addition, reduction of harm from falls was identified by Joint Commission as a national patient safety goal. Fall is defined as an unexpected descent from a standing, sitting, or supine position (Hicks, 2015).
Maintaining personal hygiene is important for many reasons: personal, social, and health reasons. Keeping a good hygiene can prevent the development and spread of illness and infection. Poor hygiene can lead to poor health. Out in the streets, people can encounter many dangers. If a person gets hurt their wound can be infected if they are not clean.
Cultural safety could be a thought that emerged within the late Eighties as a framework for the delivery of additional acceptable health services and is drawn from the work of Maori nurses in New Zealand. Additional recently it 's become recognized that the thought is helpful all told health care settings irrespective of indigenous matter peoples. Cultural safety is regarding making associate setting wherever the Aboriginal or Torres Strait inhabitant person isn 't solely treated well and during a culturally respectful manner, however they 're conjointly actively participate in interactions, basic cognitive process they 're valued, understood and brought seriously and supported to hold out culturally important tasks as a part of service delivery. A ordinarily used definition of cultural safety is
A home can provide stability. Lastly, I agree with Quindlen because a home can provide privacy. A home is everything because it can provide certainty. A person’s home doesn’t just protect him from the elements or from bad people. While this is important, a person needs to feel certain about his or her own identity as well.
Safety is not offered anywhere and is a privilege. Safety is something that you hope for because anything can happen on any given day. People should be willing to give up their freedom for safety because safety is a privilege. In today’s society, if you live in America, you have some type of freedom. Even though we have laws and rules, we still have freedom to do things.
U1 AC 2.1 - Explain ways to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment. A number of ways to establish a safe and supportive learning environment is to stay within what is deemed as conventional rules and disciplines. A typical class room layout is rows of desks and chairs facing the front, it is the usual expected layout for learners and encourages them to accept conformity, something as simple as sitting on the chairs facing the front of the classroom is reassuring to the majority that the class is safe. In days of yesteryear the students would be expected to stand up when the teacher entered the room and wait for permission to be seated, thankfully those days are in the distant past and now it is acceptable to remain talking until the teacher is ready to begin class.
P6 Explain safe working practises necessary in preparing, cooking and serving food in the health and social care environment To be able to work in any food environment in the Health & Social Care setting you must first do a food hygiene course and they all come in different levels and categories, these are basic food hygiene to level 1 Food Safety, preparing drinks and snacks, for example, cups of tea, hot chocolate, making a sandwich or serving a piece of cake or fruit, Level 2 Food Hygiene, preparing and serving meals with hygiene training for those preparing and serving meals. And Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate for supervisors. Your kitchen sink can contain more germs than your bathroom sink, germs such as E. coli, campylobacter and salmonella