VACOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI (VRE) IN THE AUSTRALIAN HEALTH-CARE SECTOR This essay will look at Vancomycin-resistant enterococci and what it is. Why has Vancomycin become resistant? Vancomycin use of for medical treatment‚ transmission of and risks to acquiring VRE infections in the Australian health-care sector. Recommended precautionary measures used to prevent the spread of VRE amongst patients and health-care workers in the workplace. Why is it becoming more prevalent in Australian health-care
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The transmission of pathogens occurs mainly through the hands of contaminated health care workers. Routine hand hygiene is a simple and effective practice for reducing or eliminating infections. Both Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) are major nosocomial pathogens found in many hospitals. Each pathogen has its own regimen for appropriate hand hygiene that must be followed. There is a critical need for education followed by compliance in
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9/20/2013 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus also known as MRSA is a bacteria frequently found on the skin of generally healthy people. MRSA is usually spread through skin to skin contact or contact with an object containing the bacteria. Most of the time you may be carrying the bacteria but you are not ill. Mostly people with weak immune systems and have been in health care centers
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30 February 2014 Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria: What is it‚ how to prevent it and who it affects? In the United States alone‚ about 23‚000 people die from antibiotic resistant infections yearly. It is also one of the top 15 most dangerous illnesses in the country (United States House of Representatives). Antibiotic resistance is when bacteria develops a different response to an antibiotic that is its ancestor bacteria. Slight changes in bacteria enable the antibiotic to work and successfully
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Differences: Strategies for Resistant Clients Unlike narrative therapy‚ solution-focused therapy presumes that some clients will be resistant to counselling and to change. While some clients are described as ’customers’ who voluntarily want to make changes in their lives‚ not every client will present in this way (Corcoran‚ 2008). Solution-focused therapy strategizes for ’complainants’‚ people who attend voluntarily but are convinced someone else or something outside of themselves needs to change
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drug-resistant TB (Dash‚ 2013). Drug resistant tuberculosis is referred to as either multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)‚ or extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB)‚ both of which create obstacles for successful treatment (Lehne‚ 2013). Lehne (2013) defines MDR-TB as a TB that does not respond to either isoniazide or rifampin. XDR-TB is defined as being resistant to isoniazide and rifampin‚ as well as fluoroquinolones and at least one second-line TB treatment drug (Lehne‚ 2013). Drug resistant TB is
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus September 22‚ 2013 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus also known as MRSA‚ is a bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics. In the community‚ most MRSA infections are skin infections. In the medical facilities‚ MRSA causes life-threatening bloodstream infections‚ pneumonia and surgical site infections. (Methecillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections‚ 2013) Individuals would
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EARTHQUAKE An earthquake (also known as a tremor‚ temblor or seismic activity) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the earth’s crust that creates SEISMIC WAVES. Earthquakes are measured with a seismometer; a device which also records is known as a seismograph. SEISMIC DEFORMATION When an earthquake fault ruptures‚ it causes two types of deformation: static; and dynamic. Static deformation is the permanent displacement of the ground due to the event. The earthquake cycle progresses
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Molecular Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Nasal Colonization and Infection Isolates in a Veterans Affairs Hospital Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) belongs to the genus Staphylococcus. It is Gram-positive‚ cocci shaped anaerobic bacteria that forms clusters and produces catalase‚ which catalyzes hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. It contains a cell wall structure (including peptidoglycan and teichoic acid) and a low G + C content of DNA between 30-40 mol
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Earthquake Resistant Buildings A Research Paper in Writing in the Discipline Emilio Aguinaldo College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Course in Writing in the Discipline Submitted by: Manicdao‚ Marlone S. Introduction Earthquakes are major geological phenomena. Man has been terrified this phenomena for ages‚ as little has been known about the causes of earthquakes‚ but it leaves behind a trail of destruction. There are hundreds of small earthquakes around the
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