Infection - Prevention and Control Hand Hygiene

Question: Discuss about the Infection, Prevention and Control for Hand Hygiene. Answer: Hand Hygiene During working with an elderly man in an old age care home, I learnt about the importance of hand hygiene. The patient was suffering from diarrhea. I noticed that many of nurses do not wash their hands after handling of the patients. However, I tried to maintain the practice of hand hygiene as it helps in infection controlling. Maintenance of the hand hygiene helps to reduce the chances of infection and such type of problems. Every time I helped the elder person in his personal care, I washed my hands as well as his hands too. It is my duty to maintain the hand hygiene to provide the best care and get the best outcome. After working in the elderly department, I gained much knowledge that will help me future. Proper use and Disposal of PPE As the patient was suffering very much, we had to provide much care to the patient. We tried to maintain the principles of the PPE use and disposal. We tried to dispose the waste properly. Kiernan (2016) opined that in the health care setting the nurses need to clean all the equipments and their hands as well as wear PPE. The use of PPE such as apron, masks and gloves are necessary in the emergency wards as well as in the general departments to avoid the harmful effects (Zone Guide, 2017). PPE helped me to provide the quality care to the elderly patients. However, after the use of the PPE, disposal is also necessary that I tried to maintain. Segregation of Linen In the health care sector, contamination may occur from the hospital linen (World Health Organization. 2014). As a professional, in the workplace, we mainly try to maintain the segregation methods. We try to maintain the cleanliness by removing the contaminated and used linen as well as removing the dirty linen. The linen, which is used, becomes contaminated. The microorganisms mainly contaminate the linen that may cause infection to the patient and harm the patient. As a nurse, I try to decontaminate the linen by heat, chemical, disinfection, mechanical and combination of heat and chemical. I try to remove the dirty linen on the daily basis and use the fresh linen for the health and safety of my patient. Disinfection of client equipment The main aim of the disinfection and sterilization in the workplace is to reduce the health hazards (Zone Guide, 2017). As the professional, we sterilize all the equipments that we use every day in the care setting for the wellbeing of the clients or service user. Moreover, we need to be careful about our own self as well as patients health. In case of meeting the goals of disinfection, the cleanliness of the equipments are necessary (World Health Organization. 2014). This can be possible via two processes such as disinfection and sterilization. I always try to sterile the instruments, I use for the patient care. Therefore, I can make my patients and clients infection free. References: Kiernan, M. (2016). Infection prevention and control.Essential Microbiology for Wound Care, 139. World Health Organization. (2014). Interim infection prevention and control guidance for care of patients with suspected or confirmed filovirus haemorrhagic fever in health-care settings, with focus on Ebola. Zone, C. P. D., Guide, S. (2017). Infection prevention and control in primary care.Sign,3531(934).