Contamination levels would vary with hospital location, medical rehabilitation ward has higher levels than other wards. Finally, simple hand washing before patient care, without hand antisepsis, is also associated with higher colony counts another important issue for medical personnel is also…
This article is about Lorin Madsen, who contracted Necrotizing fasciitis after she fell in a parking lot and skinned her arm. It discussed how many people were had to be amputated or worse killed due to this, because there was no real way to cure this infection. It usually treated with surgical excision and antibiotics, but the death rate is still to 70%. After many attempts on Lori Madsen to cure the infection her situation started to become worse until she was introduced to Dr. John Crew. He devised a plan to irrigate the infected areas of her arm, by using a FDA-approved wound cleaner called NeutroPhase, which contained hypoclorous acid in the solution.…
Exam II BIO 235 1.A. Citrobacter diversus is gram negative and is a member of the Enterobacteriacea family. This is a large group which is found in water, soil, decaying matter, and even the large intestines of humans, animals, and insects. This group of bacteria is known for being responsible for hospital acquired infections which have been named nosocomial infections. Oftentimes, they can be opportunistic infections which means they often do not cause infection in immunocompetent individuals.…
In everyday life, people use disinfectants, substances used to destroy viruses and microbes such as bacteria and fungi1, to clean their bathrooms. If not properly sterilized and cleaned, the bathroom can be a domain for numerous bacteria including ubiquitous Serratia Marcescens, a short, rod shaped, facultative anaerobic, opportunistic pathogen that can cause nosocomial infections such as urinary tract infections, bacteraemia, meningitis, sepsis and cerebral abscesses2. Facultative anaerobic meaning that it can live and grow with or without molecular oxygen3. Serratia Marcescens is a gram negative bacterium. Gram negative bacteria have a thin cell of a single layer of peptidoglycan that is enclosed by an outer membrane.…
Introduction: The world of antiseptics and disinfectants is ever changing. There are many different options out there and people have to decide what is the best option for them. For the experiment we performed in class, we had a variety of different options to use to see what the results would be from these. The range of items used were from and everyday household product of Lysol to Iodine which can be used in the operating room to prep the patient for the type of surgery they are having done. The purpose of this experiment was to show how effective products such as Lysol and Hibiclens can be against different bacteria.…
Hand Hygiene is considered “the most important measure for preventing the spread of pathogens in health- care settings” because it reduces the spread of pathogenic organisms to patients and health- care workers. Studies in the mid 1800s showed that hospital acquired nosocomial infections and diseases were spread by the hands of healthcare workers. In the 1980s, the first national guidelines for hand washing were published, and many other guidelines followed. The US public health service released a training video in 1961 that demonstrated recommended hand washing techniques for healthcare workers. The video recommended washing hands with soap and water for one to two minutes before and after coming in contact with a patient.…
Today doctors and surgeons have better tools, treatments, and now know the importance of sterilizing their operating rooms and…
Chlorhexidine gluconate is a water-soluble substance that binds to the negatively charged bacterial cell wall, altering the bacterial cell osmotic equilibrium. The mode of action displayed by CHG has proven to be dependent on its concentration on the skin. The agent has a long term effect on the skin whereby regrowth of skin bacteria is highly suppressed. It has been proven that the agent reduces skin flora and bacteria by 86%–92% (Weinstein, Milstone, Passaretti & Perl, 2008). Research indicates that daily bathing with two percent chlorhexidine gluconate decreases patient bacterial skin colonization, healthcare workers’ hand contamination, and environmental surface contamination.…
I feel that this is an experience that every student in healthcare should go through. One of the most important observations that I made concerns the various procedures of preventing infections in the operating room. The prevention majorly focuses on the patient, especially when considered the patient has open sounds during the operating process. At times, the practitioners tend to forget the importance of cleaning their hands with soap and water or with alcohol-based cleaners when interacting with the environment (Scott, Earl, Leaper, Massey, Mewburn, Williams, 1999). Notably, the assumption that the practitioner does not need to clean hands simply because they have gloves is misplaced, and it is often overlooked (Weber, Anderson, &Rutala, 2013; Karki& Cheng, 201)).…
This bacterial species causes outbreaks in various hospital wards, more frequently in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neuro-surgery and Neurology4,10,11,12. Patients at risk are those with debilitating disorders, those treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and those in intensive care who are subjected to instrumentation such as tracheostomy tubes or indwelling catheters8. Serratia marcescens infections are known to be transmitted through hand-to-hand contact by medical personnel. Solutions used for medical purposes can be contaminated and infect patients…
Hospital acquired infections are on the rise. Historically people have always been concerned about the spread of infection. Currently we treat people infected with communicable disease (infection) in the same settings as people without infection. It is important as a healthcare worker to know and practice evidence based practice when it comes to prevention of spread of infection.…
The hypothesis about the +pGLO plate containing ampicillin and LB was correct because the bacteria did end up growing and not glowing under UV light. It ended up growing because the LB that was in the plate with it helped the bacteria grow and reproduce. The bacteria became resistant to the ampicillin because the DNA plasmid contained beta lactamase which made the cell resistant to ampicillin. It did not end up glowing under UV light because the gene for the green fluorescent protein was repressed by the araC gene found on the DNA plasmid. The hypothesis about the +pGLO plate containing LB, ampicillin, and arabinose was correct because the bacteria did end up growing and glowing under UV light.…
The practice standards and entry-to-practice competencies are helpful for nurses in providing competent, safe and ethical care. The practice standards describe the role of all nurses and protect the public from any kind of harm (CNO, 2009). These standards support nurses to understand their responsibilities and outlines the expectations of nurses for the public (CNO, 2009). Also, the practice standards are followed by all nurses in their area of practice (CNO, 2009). The entry-to-practice competencies are client centered and focus on up-to-date developments in health care practice in nursing.…
Physicians use soap on wound to kill germs that cause infection. Detergents and soaps are in households, industrial place, in hospitals “just everywhere”. People use these items to wash dishes, to scrub floors, and to clean just about everything in the house. Industrial places use these products as cleaners, lubricants,…
Hand hygiene is a general term applying to the utilization of soap, water and the utilization of hand rub to the surface of the hands (Public Health Ontario, 2008, p., 2).Effective hand hygiene is the absolute most essential system in counteracting healthcare associated infections. Germs spread mostly through our hands and in various ways, in order to reduce the spread of infection it is important that healthcare professionals take hand hygiene seriously (Aziz, 2013, p.458). In the health care settings it is imperative that staff wash their hands when they get in contact with patients who are sick in order to prevent the spread of infection form patient to patient and to themselves. People die every day in the world from infections acquired…