Cross Infection Definition Cross infection is the physical movement or transfer of harmful bacteria from one person‚ object‚ or place to another‚ or from one part of the body to another (such as touching a staph-infected hand to the eye). When this cross infection occurs in a hospital or long-term care facility it is called a nosocomial infection. Community acquired infections are those contracted anywhere except a hospital or long-term care facility. Description Cross infection accounts for
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Section 1: Infections in Healthcare Settings Essay. Nosocomial infections‚ hospital acquired infections‚ are an on-going concern to healthcare professionals. These infections are one of the major causes of death in hospitalised patients and are a significant burden on not only the patient’s and the public’s health (as organisms causing nosocomial infections can be transmitted to the community through discharged patients‚ staff and visitors) but also the economy. A nosocomial infection is an infection
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Outline procedures for infection control in your own work setting At Gap Club to reduce the risk of infections we: 1. Provide protective clothing and equipment for staff in accordance with company procedures. 2. Have daily‚ weekly and monthly routine sterilising processes in place. 3. Outside contract cleaners clean premises daily. 4. If an outbreak does occur then a deep clean is completed in the appropriate area/s by Gap staff and contract cleaners. It is a fact that children will get
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The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)‚ a wing of the U.S Executive Office of the President‚ started a media campaign to attack drug use in September of 1999. A main component of the campaign called phase three was specifically aimed at reducing marijuana use‚ which started in Oct 2002 ending June 2003. The target group was youth ages twelve to eighteen. Studies have shown that the ads have had no effect on reducing marijuana use. The appointed advertising company Ogilvy & Mathers
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Prevention Nicole Griffin HSM/210 April 5‚ 2015 Elise Merenda Prevention The targeted population that I chose to write about is the homeless. With over 4‚000 people dealing with homelessness in Connecticut‚ the majority of these people facing this problem have some sort of mental illness‚ physical disabilities‚ or dealing with a form of substance abuse problem ("Partnership for Strong Communities"‚ 2015). A lot of this problem stems from the people being released prematurely from mental hospitals
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11.1.2 Summarise the relevant policy and age-related expectations of learners relevant to literacy development When students start in year 7 at my school the national curriculum age-related expectations are that the students will be working at a level 4 for Literacy. However this is not always the case. We regularly have students working at a level 3 or lower and a few students working above the expected level for their age. The ability level of the students is extremely varied and this
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The legal aspects and organisational policies relating to discipline in the workplace Describe‚ briefly‚ the legal aspects of the disciplinary process Whenever an employer employs someone to work for their organisation they have to give them a contract of employment which states the rules in which they should adhere to whilst working for the organisation. Should the individual do something outside of that contact they could potentially face disciplinary proceedings. For an organisation to present
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ORGANISATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ZENITH BANK PLC BY GINA PEARCE SUBMITTED MAY 4TH 2009 An Action Learning Assignment submitted to Business School Netherlands‚ Nigeria in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an MBA Degree TABLE OF CONTENT CONTENTS PAGE 1.0 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………….. 4 1.1 Background……………………………………………………………………
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Chain of Infection As described above‚ the traditional epidemiologic triad model holds that infectious diseases result from the interaction of agent‚ host‚ and environment. More specifically‚ transmission occurs when the agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit‚ is conveyed by some mode of transmission‚ and enters through an appropriate portal of entry to infect a susceptible host. This sequence is sometimes called the chain of infection. Figure 1.19 Chain of Infection Image
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Handgun Violence Prevention Act A Policy Critique Analyze the Problem Every program or policy starts with a problem in need of a solution‚ and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act is no different. The need for change was very simply justified: violent crimes are most often committed with a handgun. (DOJ‚ 1995) More outstanding however‚ in the case of the Brady act‚ was the specific assault against president Reagan and the crippling of James Brady. Similarly‚ the earlier Gun Control Act (GCA) of
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