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Takeaway messages Routine hand hygiene is paramount in preventing health-care-associated infections
Choosing wisely means choosing care that is truly necessary
Knowledge of standard infection and control principles and practices can help reduce the transmission of flu and other infectious diseases. 1) If you wear gloves while providing care, hand hygiene is not required. True or False 2) Your infection control department tells you that a patient can be managed using routine practices. This means: a) The patient does not have any bacteria and does not pose a risk to staff or other patients b) Any care being provided is routine in nature and presents no risk of infection c) A risk assessment should be done before providing care and PPE worn as appropriate to the situation and the care being provided 3) The most effective way for health-care providers to protect themselves, their family and their patients from influenza is to: a) Wear a surgical mask at all times at work b) Stay at home if they have respiratory symptoms c) Get an annual flu shot and encourage their family, co-workers and patients to get the flu vaccine annually d) Not go to work from November to April 4) If your hands are visibly soiled, hand hygiene using alcohol-based hand rub is the preferred method
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Designating confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients to one group of nurses is ideal for infection control, but the increased workload associated with these patients can make such a model unsustainable
Families as health-care partners In the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a growing movement toward increasing family involvement in health-care institutions
Your patients infected with resistant organisms will need to be treated with alternative antibiotics which are sometimes less effective or cause more side effects. In addition, infections by drug-resistant organisms have been associated with poor health outcomes, including increased length of stay in hospital, complications, and death (WHO, 2014)
Unsafe injection of illegal substances such as heroin and crack cocaine is associated with blood-borne pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), injection-related infections, endocarditis and death due to overdose
If it is binocular, it likely affects the chiasm or the occipital lobe. Is there pain associated with the visual loss? If there is pain, it is likely related to a problem in the front of the eye, including such problems as corneal abrasions and infections, inflammation in the eye and angle closure glaucoma