Spills Management: Policies and Procedures for Infection Control

This article discusses spills management policies and procedures in healthcare organizations to prevent infection and ensure patient safety. It covers topics such as sterilization, PPE disposal, cleaning procedures, and guidelines for handling patients with respiratory illnesses. The article also includes relevant research studies and their findings.

Spills management

Table of Contents
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
Question 2.......................................................................................................................................3
Question 3........................................................................................................................................4
Question 4:.......................................................................................................................................4
Question:5........................................................................................................................................4
Question:6........................................................................................................................................4
Question: 7.......................................................................................................................................5
Question:-8.......................................................................................................................................5
Question:9........................................................................................................................................5
Question:10......................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

Question 1
Health service organization having the management system for dealing with blood and
body substance spills. The policies includes the precaution and safety standard by use of personal
protective equipment(PPE) as applicable with in the policies. The spill management policies
provide the way to protect from any kind of infection. The policy is regarding the patient safety
which includes –
 Confine the contaminated area
 Wear the gloves and other PPE for the safety
 spills should cleared up before the area is cleaned
 wipe the spill with newspaper or blotting paper
 discard the paper as infected waste
 Facilitate the management waste according to the environment legislation
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Question 2
There is appropriate guidelines by which care provider works and handle the needle.
Hand should be keep behind the tip of needle and avoid bringing the hands close to the sharp. It
is most important to dispose the sharp in a effective manner which does not affect the
environment by spreading any kind of infection. After using the needle or sharp it is disposed in
a hard plastic container immediately. Sharps are safely disposed in a medical waste facilities and
special bins, so it is essential to dispose the sharp soon after the use.
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Question 3
There are various equipment which are reusable, to used the same equipment to the next
patient it is most important to ensure about the sterilization process of that equipment.
Sterilization is most important because it can evaluate the micro-organisms from the equipment.
There are five steps of sterilisation process of sterilisation of equipment includes-
 Placed all equipment in autoclave.
 Set-up the temperature at 121 C.
 Steams kills bacteria and microbes from the equipment.
 Steam is released and equipment get sterilised.
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Question 4:
Personal protective equipment can be disposed in a legal, safe and responsible manner
because there is a hospital rules for the PPE disposal for the patient safety and avoid of infection.
Solo Resource recovery is used as the disposal in every healthcare organization. The PPE
should disposed in a biohazard bin in the hospital as per the hospital management policies.
Every health service organization have designed biohazard bin for disposing the PPE equipment
for avoiding the infection and injuries to the health workers and patient.
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Question:5
Cleaning procedure is essential for the patient as well as healthcare organization because
it can helps in avoiding the infection which is spread from the surface. To maintain the cleanness
in the environment to establish the cleaning activity on the daily basis with the helps of
disinfectant which can reduce the chance of occurring infection in the environment. Sterilisation

is also most important in cleaning procedure because it can helps in protecting the patient from
any kind of infection.
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Question:6
In case of patient having pertussis (whooping cough), healthcare provide should
responsible to take care of the patient with appropriate precaution and proper hygiene to prevent
the spread of respiratory illness to the others . It includes the list of PPE such as:
 Wearing the mask while providing the medical treatment to the patient.
 Healthcare provider should wear the hand gloves and apron for the prevention of
whooping cough.
 Apron and gloves are used for the safety and prevention from the whooping cough from
In the pertussis case the specified mask is required which is surgical mask which provide
protection from the spread of pertussis to the child as well as care healthcare provider.
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Question: 7
It is most important to provide the linen safety to the patient and also ensure that there
clothes must transfer in to the medical solos resource recovery. Healthcare provider is
responsible to ensure about the linen safety of the patient and there infected not get contacted
with the other linen. Soiled linen is placed in impermeable bag immediately after the removal
from the bed. Soiled linen is placed into the water soluble bag which can prevent from the
infections.

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Question:-8
The appropriate way to implementing the precaution guidelines among the healthcare
team by conducting the meetings and by sending the full information and implementing the strict
guidelines to follow the policy of healthcare organization because it can reduce the chance of
spreading infection among the workplace by implementing the strict guidelines.
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Question:9
Implementation to prevent the diseases of respiratory of includes some precaution which
is for every individual patient and healthcare provider such as:- covering the mouth while
contacting with the patient and other team members the mask is used by the healthcare provider
is N95 because it protect up to 4 hours. Wearing gloves and uses the proper hand sanitization
before and after contacting with the patient. The proper use of PPE, gloves, mask and
sanitization. Use of hand sanitizer and avoid contacting with other people can protect them from
respiratory diseases and infection.
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Question:10
The potential risk generated within the COVID-19 patient is the high risk of spreading
infection to the others, it can also lead to cause death, very high exposure of risk of spreading
diseases and chronic respiratory illness. These are some potential risk of COVID-19 which need
to reported and documented.

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