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Importance of Infection Preventing and Control

   

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INFECTION PREVENTIONAND CONTROL
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Importance of infection preventing and control..........................................................................1Different risks involved in health care setting............................................................................1Standard precautions to manage risk...........................................................................................2Additional precautions required..................................................................................................2Ways in which infection risk and relevant controls are documented and recorded....................2Measures that should be taken when accident occurs.................................................................3Measures taken if there are contaminated waste, spill of blood and bodily fluid.......................3Use of PPE..................................................................................................................................3Hand washing, hand care and personal hygiene.........................................................................4Methods of ensuring clean zones................................................................................................5Necessity of clean zones.............................................................................................................6Contaminated equipments and instruments should be segregated..............................................6Various types of waste generated at these workplaces...............................................................6Handling, storing and disposing of different types of wastes.....................................................7Environmental surface and equipment must be cleaned and decontaminated............................8Cleaning and storing of cleaning equipments.............................................................................8Legislations related to risk management, infection control and waste management..................9CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONInfection prevention and control refers to microbiology's clinical application that is inworkplace. This is an area that needs to be considered by health service organisation so as toensure patient’s health and safety. This is an integral part of increasing resistance againstmicrobial attacks. These are highly dangerous especially if it occurs in the health careorganisations as numerous patients come to these places (Adams and et. al., 2011). St Vincent'shealth Australia is one of the largest nation's Catholic non-profit organisation in health and caresector. It is operating in many parts of the country namely south Wales, Queensland andVictoria. It was established in the year 1857 by sisters of charity. It has 6 public and 9 privatehospitals under it with around 18500 hundred staffs. This report highlights the importance ofpreventing infection and control measures in health care organisations in Queensland Australia.It also showcases about the waste management practices that is prevalent in this sector.Importance of infection prevention and controlIt is important to save patients and visitors from the infections that are caused whilevisiting to health service organisations. Infections that are acquired at health care organisationsare highly dangerous and most common. It is one of the important complications that arise forany health care unit (Backman and et. al., 2011). As visitors at these places are in great threat ofgetting in contact of several transmitting diseases. If control measures are not implementedpeople will be vulnerable to Infection or diseases that are caused by prions, fungi, bacteria orviruses.Different risks involved in health care settingThere are several risks that are involved in health care setting. Some of these are as follows:Infection due to contaminated equipmentProper handling of waste materialChances of getting in touch with radiation while handling radioactive materialsContamination of food served at these settings.Cuts due to improper handling of sharp instrumentsTransfer of air Bourne diseases 1
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Standard precautions to manage riskStandard precautions are the minimum requirement for controlling infection. There arevarious preventive measures and precautions that are required at health care units. Some of thesestandard precautions are as follows:Hygienic practices such as washing and drying hands before and after contact withpatients (Basu and et. al., 2014)Personal protective equipment such as gown, masks, googles, gloves, plastic aprons andeye shields.Proper disposable of contaminated clinical waste and preventive handling of sharp tools.Appropriate handling of patient’s body fluids, non-intact skin, blood, saliva, mucousmembrane, etc.Additional precautions that are requiredThere are various other precautions that are required apart from minimum standardprecautions at health care settings:Airborne transmission such as chicken pox, tuberculosis can be prevented by using mask.Rubella, influenza and pertussis caused by droplet transmission of respiratory secretioncan be restricted by mask and googles.Use of gloves before being in contact with the patients having faecal contamination fromcarriers like vancomycin resistant enterococci and those who are colonised withmethicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. Allocation of specific rooms and dedicated toilets to patients with proper facilities.If single rooms cannot be provided then cohorting can be used.Proper distillation of the tools used in check-ups.Ways in which infection risk and relevant controls are documented and recordedBefore the use of technological equipments there where manual methods in which riskand relevant controls are documented and recorded (Burnett, 2011). With the introduction ofcomputers in the medical sciences record keepings of these incidents are done online. Some ofthe methods are as follows:Online record keeping through use of cloud storageIncidents are documented in the computer storage2
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