Infection Control Policy and Procedures Policy: Always wash your hands: * After using the toilet * After changing a diaper — wash the diaper-wearer’s hands‚ too * After touching animals or animal waste * Before and after preparing food‚ especially before and immediately after handling raw meat‚ poultry or fish * Before eating * After blowing your nose * After coughing or sneezing into your hands * Before and after treating wounds or cuts * Before
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CYPCORE 3413 Identify sources of current guidance for planning healthy and safe environments All settings should have copies of the latest legislation and guidance as well as their own policies and procedures. Health & safety executive: HSE is the national independent watchdog for work-related health‚ safety and illness. They are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces Health and Safety at Work
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Section Two: Task 3 Risk Assessment 4. Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections. 4.1 Define the term risk According to Wikipedia risk is defined as… Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable outcome). The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome exists (or existed). Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks". Almost
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Name UNIT 22 CAUSES AND SPREAD OF INFECTION 1.1 Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites What is a Bacteria? A bacteria is a living things that are neither plants nor animals‚ but belong to a group all by themselves. They are very small--individually not more than one single cell--however there are normally millions of them together‚ for they can multiply really fast. Bacteria are prokaryotes (single cells that do not
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common pathogen in nosocomial pneumonia. It is hospital acquired infection that the hospitals eat up the cost of treatment. Although pneumonia can be prevented‚ it is still an infection that we find in hospitals all across the United States. Pneumonia is a dangerous infection in patients who are already immunosuppressed and get pneumonia as a secondary infection. Preventative measures need to be taken to prevent such infections in the perioperative stages.
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putting your fingers in your mouth can potentially give you food poisoning so a couple of bites of an uncooked burger would be enough to ensure a few bad stomachs the next day. Bacteria can get into your body in many ways; the first one is Droplet infection so when you cough‚ sneeze or talk you expel tiny droplets full of pathogens from your breathing system and then other people breathe that in. The second is Direct Contact which means that some diseases are spread by direct contact of the skin. The
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Most P. aeruginosa infections occur in hospitalized patients‚ particularly those who are immunocompromised. P. aeruginosa is a common cause of infections in ICUs. HIV-infected patients‚ particularly those in advanced stages‚ are at risk of community-acquired P. aeruginosa infections. P. aeruginosa infections can develop in many anatomic sites‚ including skin‚ subcutaneous tissue‚ bone‚ ears‚ eyes‚ urinary tract‚ and heart valves. The site varies with the portal of entry and the patient’s vulnerability
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Unit 008; Causes and spread of infections. Outcome 1. Understand the cause of infection: 1) Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites. Bacteria – bacteria are extremely small singular organisms which are found almost everywhere. Viruses – it is a coated genetic material that invades cells and uses the cells apparatus for reproduction. Fungi – it is a multi-celled living organism. Parasites – they are types of living plants and animals that derive benefit
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concept of occupational health and control measures implemented to prevent such infection ? To prevent and to control the spread of infection is primary in the health care settings. It begins by believing that everybody is very much infectious therefore‚ its everybody’s responsibility to prevent and control the spread of infection. Healthcare workers have a guidelines on how to prevent and control the spread of infection when providing care for all hospitalised individuals in healthcare. Workplaces
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spread of infection 1.1. Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites All 4 are different types of pathogens Bacteria is a single celled organism that multiply by themselves. They lives within and on most living and nonliving things. The majority of bacteria’s are harmless and beneficial to the human body but some can cause infectious diseases. A bacterium usually affects one part of the body and doesn’t spread across or through the body. Bacterial infections are normally
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