Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Nursing Home Settings during COVID-19

COVID-19 AT
NURSING HOME
SETTING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Background and context.........................................................................................................3
Strategy...................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
A nursing home setting is usually defined as residential care to provide proper support
and provide a home to the people who require it in order to help with managing daily life. It is
usually dependent on individual needs and provides personal care such as help with dressing,
washing, and eating and also provides healthcare facilities to eradicate the issue of health that
they face for a prolonged period. In addition, nursing home settings are usually providing a wide
range of healthcare facilities and services to the number of people who are facing issues related
to the illness. This report has major discussion is based on the nursing home setting with the
occurrence of covid-19 virus (Adams and Walls, 2020). Therefore, the discussion is usually well-
elaborated about infection control practices that may be applied within the nursing home setting
to prevent the spread of infection. Moreover, the procedures and policy are usually analyzed with
the concern to infection control practices in the nursing home setting. Usually, the report focuses
on the infection control knowledge safety and cost-effectiveness and appropriate
recommendation that is useful to improve the practices with the help of proper intervention and
strategies. It is helpful to create an understanding regards with the infection control practices
procedures the policy within the nursing care settings that may be used in order to reduce the
rising complications of covid 19 infection (Adegboye and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
Background and context
In 2019, the novel coronavirus was determined as the major cause of issues and it rises
from Wuhan, China persistently the infection is usually spread throughout the world and the
outcome which is derived is creating the issues of a global pandemic. The coronavirus is usually
designated with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and the disorder it generally
causes is also known as coronavirus disease. The nursing homes have played a central role to
provide support and care for the number of people during the covid-19. Whereas, they also face
the issues of infection within the health care setting that impact the patient visibility and their
accommodability. Moreover, the outbreak of coronavirus has usually created enormous risk in
older people because they are not enough immune to handle or take the issue of coronavirus the
covid-19 (Arain, Thalapparambath and Al Ghamdi, 2021).