The principles of infection prevention and control Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections Outcome 1 1. The employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection differ between roles of whether you’re a health support worker‚ social worker and social care assistants‚ you all have roles and responsibilities you need to follow. You all need to be aware of and report change in the health conditions of the individual
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Principles of Infection Prevention and Control (1.1)Q. Explain your employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection. (1.2)Q. Explain your employers’ responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control infection. (2.1)Q. Outline current legislation and regulatory body standards which are relevant to the prevention and control of infection. (2.2)Q. Describe local and organizational policies relevant to the prevention and control of infection. (3.1)Q.
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Unit 4222 – 303 promote quality and inclusion in Health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings. Outcome 1 Explain what is meant by: * Diversity * Equality * Inclusion 1. Diversity can be defined as differences in gender‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ values‚ lifestyle‚ sexual orientation‚ appearance‚ education ‚ religion ‚ disabilities‚ marital status and economic status. Equality Equality and Diversity is a term used to define and champion equality‚ diversity
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Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections‚ impacting more than 150 million people annually and resulting in significant health care costs and morbidity (Foxman‚ 2010; Stamm and Norrby‚ 2001). In the United States alone the costs of health care and time missed from work reach 3.5 billion dollars per year (Foxman‚ 2014). It is estimated that one out of two women will suffer UTI during their lifetime and nearly half of them will experience recurrence (Foxman‚ 2002)
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Surgical site infections are one the most common type of hospital-acquired infection‚ even in occurrence with pneumonia. This is an ongoing problem in today’s health care system. Nurses have many duties to the patient by implementing and following protocols to prevent infections and should also work with the whole health care team to avoid them. Preventing surgical site infections is very important in the perioperative environment. This is so important‚ that the CDC and Hospital Infection Control Practices
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Assignment 1: Biology Article Marquis C. Saddler Professor Nolan SCI115 February 26‚ 2013 The title of this article is‚ “How Hard Would It Be for Avian Flu to Spread?” In this article two teams of scientist genetically altered a deadly flu virus (H5N1) to make it more contagious. The two teams consisted of scientist from Erasmus Medical Center‚ in the Netherlands‚ and the other at the University of Wisconsin (McNeil & Grady‚ 2012). Some argued that the research should have never
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The Spread of Religion Religion has played a fundamental role in shaping today’s history. Much of recent history in the Western hemisphere has been heavily influenced by Christianity and all that religion offers. Whilst in the Eastern hemisphere‚ Buddhism is one of the dominating religions. The spread of these religions have impacted many regions socially‚ economically‚ and/or politically. When the word Christianity is said‚ the things that come to mind for several people are church and God.
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Name: NMED 1117 – Basic Venipuncture for Allied Health Professions Assignment 2: Case Study – The Chain of Infection Assessment Criteria Assignment 2 is worth 10 marks and is weighted as 15% of the total course mark. Please note the links in this document are not active. 1. Review the information at the following links: http://faculty.ccc.edu/tr-infectioncontrol/index.htm http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/271feat3.html 2. Perform a search for other related
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He had staph infection in his ankle which then transformed into a very rare flesh eating disease called Necrotizing Fasciitis. The infection was spreading quick and they needed to get it out of his blood stream as soon as possible. The doctors came in and were telling my mom about how deadly this infection actually was. Kaleb then came to realization that if the doctors didn’t do the best they could to get all the infection out he was going to die. My brother was in
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SARS. SARS did not spread more widely in the United States. SARS generally begins with a high fever (a fever greater than 100.4 ° F [> 38.0 ° C]). Other symptoms may be headache‚ a general feeling of discomfort and pain in the body. Some people experience mild respiratory symptoms early in the illness. About 10 to 20 percent of patients suffer from diarrhea. After 2 to 7 days‚ patients with SARS may develop dry cough. Most patients contract pneumonia. The main form of SARS spread seems to be close
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