material such as gauze to protect‚ compress or support a wound or an injured body part TYPES OF BANDAGE 1. *Roller Bandage* -made of self-adhering material which is slightly elastic and gauze like * Gauze rollers-more rigid; made of cotton * Elastic rollers-used in injuries requiring compression 2. *Triangular Bandage* -can be applied in two ways: *fully-opened-used as arm slings *cravat-binder placed around
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Joyce C. Villamar Assignment No. 4 IV – Calcium November 26‚ 2012 Sterile Bandage A sterile bandage‚ also known as a sterile dressing‚ is any material that is free from infectious matter and that is used to cover an open wound or injury to help control bleeding and prevent additional contamination from the environment. One of the principle functions of the skin is to act as a guard against microorganisms‚ commonly called germs; debris; chemicals‚ and other substances from the
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hosiery products with medical industry applications are among a long list of textile products being consumed in that market. An important field of application of textile in medicine has been developed such as wound care and preventing chronic wounds. Bandages and wound dressings are most commonly
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Managing Health and Safety In the Workplace There are many different potential risks in to a business when it comes to health and safety. Businesses have to make sure that they protect the employees and the general public from the health and safety risks. The many risks that a business can be effected with are: * Fire risks * Accident risk * Stress * Injuries These effect a business‚ because they have to make sure that every risks is thoroughly checked and that it
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Research Article Critique Paper Vincent J Ramirez University of Phoenix Evidence-Based Nursing Research and Practice NUR/443 Lois Ramer DNSc‚ FNP February 15‚ 2009 Research Article Critique Paper The purpose of this paper is to critique a research article; “an intellectual research critique is a careful‚ complete examination of a study to judge its strengths‚ weaknesses‚ logical links‚ meaning‚ and significance‚” (Burns & Grove‚ 2007‚ p. 445). The selected article may be a qualitative
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Table of Contents 1. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ON THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT 2 2. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) 3 3. FIRST AID KITS 7 4. SAFETY OF MOVING MACHINERY 14 5. FIRE FIGHTING AND FIRE RISK 20 1. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ON THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT Legal requirements are any requirements that are issued by the local‚ provincial or federal government and are within scope. The principal legal requirements relating to occupational health and safety are covered in the Health and
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representative. To start our activity our instructors introduced their self for us to know who are they and they said that we must call them Sir and Ma’am. The first activity we did is about the different kind of bandages‚ there’s a lot of bandages that we can make for an injured person with a triangular bandage. After we learned about bandaging they give us a time to take our lunch. After an hour we moved to the Rappelling. First‚ our instructors discuss about the things or the equipment that we will be using
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they did not report changes on the breakdown of the patient’s skin. Whilst focusing on the wound I decided the appropriate form of intervention would be compression bandages. The patient was reluctant to have a bandage applied to her leg although I empathised with the patient by informing them what would happen if the appropriate bandage was not applied and that it was the only possible way of getting it to heal properly. At the time I was thinking that the patient was not informing me properly
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I was asked to create a report demonstrating my knowledge on the need‚ importance and understanding of the various aspects of safety and health at work. In my report I must answer the following six questions. 1. Explore the role of communications and training in the promotion and provision of health and safety in the workplace. Communications and training are very important when it comes to good health and safety in the workplace. It is the employers’ responsibility to ensure that the needs for good
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Safety & Health at Work SN1794 Assignment 10/3/2013 Joy Mc Inerney Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Explore the role of communications and training in promotion and provision of health and safety in the workplace. 3. Outline the principles and procedures of good housekeeping in the work place 4. Noise‚ dust and fumes are hazards whish commonly found in the work place for one of these hazards outline the risk associated with the exposure to this hazard
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