Infection Prevention In Healthcare Settings

1.1 Explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection

1. Explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection.

It is preventing or protecting anybody from infection, service users individuals, staff. Knowledge has to be given to everyone in workplace about infections and how it could be as simple as regular hand wash after dealing with people, using gloves and aprons regularly, making sure all equipment that needs sterilizing are sterilised promptly and the environment is sanitised and properly cleaned Control Control policies are measures put in place when incidents occur or when somebody is identified with infectious disease. It has to be documented. The manager takes necessary steps to what to do to stop or minimize the spread of the disease. 3.

2. Overalls (to protect the body from possible exposure / blood borne virus, to also identify area / room of work, see SOP’s, to also prevent outside contamination from everyday clothing)

Chapter 12 caught my attention because it informs you how infections develop into humans and types of agents to stop the infection. Infection and pathogens are created by microorganisms that enter the body. Microorganisms that can cause this are bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. These microorganisms can enter through your nose, mouth or skin so it is recommended to always wash your hands and receive vaccinations. Antibiotics are not as effective like it was back in the days, because microorganisms learned to be resistant to it. There is antibacterial, antiviral and antituberculosis agents to control microorganisms. Antibacterial agents destroys microbes and prevent it from multiplying. Antituberculosis are agents that treat diseases that

of this policy is to reduce the risk of infection transmission both to and from

Prevention method: attempt to identify source of the infection. If a food product is suspected discus with the

EBP has proving how standard precaution help prevent infections. Standard precautions aim to eliminate sources of infection whenever possible and to prevent the spread of infection. People requiring care in hospitals, care homes, clinics, doctors’ surgeries and in their own homes may have infections or may be at risk of picking up infection from others. It is imperial for health care providers educate patient and their family on prevention of infections.

Preventing infections in the hospitalized patient always has been a performance measure and is part of The Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals for 2015 (Joint Commission, 2015). Controlling infections in the hospitalized patient is an evidenced-based practice known to improve patient's health, reduce costs, prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAI), and prevent the spread of multi-resistant organisms (CDC, 2013). Hand hygiene is the routine use of hand washing, antiseptic hand wash, antiseptic hand rub, or surgical hand antisepsis (CDC, 2013). In the hospitalized patient the routine use of an alcohol-based antiseptic hand rub or antiseptic hand wash to remove or destroy any transient microorganisms and decrease resident flora

Secondly, we have to prevent spread of infectious disease through evidence-based infection control, for instance, environmental arrangements, hand hygiene and using personal protective

We can prohibit pathogens from spreading and spreading to others by cleaning and staying healthy. When people are not doing healthy things this gives bacteria and a virus chances to get in your body.

University Infection Control and Prevention (UICP). Initially supported by a grant from the University of Chicago’s Department of Medicine, UICP offers local and regional hospitals and other facilities outreach programs in infection control and prevention. Tailored to the specific needs of participating institutions, UICP provides a new and intensive approach to infection control, focusing on location-specific priorities to develop an individualized plan that is evidence-based, sustainable, and integrated with routine operations. Specific services offered by UICP include: 1) Institutional risk assessment and gap analysis. 2) Support for outbreak investigation. 3) Staff education and mentoring programs. 4) Assistance with local performance-improvement

Infection control within a healthcare facility is the prevention of the spread of many microorganisms from patient to patient, patient to a member of staff and also from the staff member to the patient that are in there care. The World Health Organisation have defined healthcare associated infections as an infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other healthcare facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission. Every healthcare facility from hospitals to general practitioners office should have a designated member of staff or a team of people who ensure that the infection control procedures are abided by and adhered to at all times in order to protect both staff and patients. More than 300,000 people each year are affected by a healthcare associated infection and the cost of treatment for these patients is over £3,000 and there is also the cost of treatment after discharge.

Causes of Emergence must be the recognition in an epidemic situation as a fundamental part of the Nosocomial Infectious Surveillance System in place by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to enhance the prevention and prevent the spread in health care facilities.

Infectious diseases according to the Mariam Webster Dictionary, is “a disease caused by the entrance into the body of organisms (as bacteria, protozoans, fungi, or viruses) which grow and multiply there”. Infectious diseases has been one of the biggest issues facing mankind since the beginning of time. Particularly due to the fact that we will never truly get rid of infectious diseases as a new one seems to appear every few years. From diseases such as the great plague, the H1N1 influenza and more recently, The Ebola virus and the HIV-AIDs epidemic.