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Infection Prevention and Control Policies and Procedures

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Infection Prevention and Control Policies and Procedures

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Comply with infection prevention and control policies and proceduresNameEmail addressAssessment2.AssignmentAssignments may include short answer questions or longer answer questions and are designed to test how you apply your knowledge into a real-world situation. All assignments are completed as a Microsoft Word document and are submitted to an assessor through My eCampus. Your assessor is looking for how you apply your knowledge and how you think critically about the topic area.This assignment is designed to give you greater understanding of the purpose of infection control in the healthcare workplace. To gain a greater understanding you will be required to use the information from your workbook as well as other sources. Specifically the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare. This can be found at http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/cd33.These guidelines are available as a PDF. Download the PDF and this will help with your assessment tasks below. This document contains information that applies to all healthcare premises regardless of the size of the facility. You will not be required to read or understand the entire document, but there are certain parts of the guidelines that you will need to complete yourassessments.
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Task 1On page 21 of the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare there is a table of standard precautions that are to be used by healthcare workers to reduce the likelihood of infection.Within that table, the following precautions are listed:•Hand Hygiene•Personal Protective Equipment•Handling and Disposal of Sharps•Environmental Controls•Reprocessing of Re-usable equipment and instruments•Respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette•Aseptic non-touch technique•Waste and LinenWithin the table is direction to the guidelines for each standard precaution, select one of the standard precautions. Then go to the section relating to the standard precaution, within each section is a topic titled “Putting it into practice”. You will need to read this topic to answer the following questionQuestion 1.1Based on the standard precaution you have chosen, name the standard precaution and describe in your own words, how you would put this precaution into practice. The guideline provides standards to the health workers so that the infections could be reduced due to lack of knowledge. From the list of standards, I have chosen the hand hygiene as this is the basic parameter while dealing with health issues having chances of spreading infections. The standard is basically set aiming to reduce the risk of infectious agents that may transmit infections. Hand may have microorganisms, contamination with respiratory secretion leading to cross-transmission of different agents. By maintaining hand hygiene, reduction of infectious disease (nosocomial) can be ensured. Alcohol based hand rubs, hand cream must be used to prevent infections. While putting it into action I shall minimise physical contact with patients, follow the 5 moments of hand hygiene, using alcohol based rubs respectively.
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Question 1.2One page 22 of the guidelines is a table describing the transmission-based precautions. Chose oneof the precautions then go to the section of the guide relating to that precaution. Summarise in your own how you would apply those precautions in a healthcare environment. It is also notable that any kind of infection preventive strategy should maintain minimum level of setstandard. In this context, transmitting precautions are set to restrict further infection. While working under health care sector, the health workers should have the knowledge to prevent infectious diseases caused by lack of prevention (due to infectious agents). While dealing with diseases such as small cut, burnt area there are presence of transmitting agents and here comes theneed personal protective equipments. I will put the standard into practice by obeying the notion of isolation, cohorting. Along with that, personal protective equipments and person-centred approach may also be put into practice in this context. Routinely inspection may be helpful to reduce the occurrence of risks. In addition, contact precautions, droplet precautions and airborne precautions will also be put into practice to ensure quality service to the care users. Task 2On page 25 of the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare is a case study example of how an infection risk is managed. Using this and your workbook, describe how you could respond to an infection risk in the workplace.Case example: A container of clinical waste is accidently drop onto the floor. The container breaks, spilling its contents on the floor of a busy walkway. The container included sharps, bandages with blood and other clinical waste.Question 2.1Describe how you would respond to this risk. Specifically, state what potential risk this case example could cause and how you would respond? (Hint: use the guidelines for use of PPE and cleaning)As per the situation provided, it is notable to mention that the clinic waste-drop container was containing wastes such as sharps, bandages other clinical wastage. It might get risky for the people walking around the road to be infected or injured by the components in the drop container. Some of the risks involved in this case are listed below. Chances of spreading infections Chances of getting injured with needles and syringe Due to blood, someone may get slipped
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