In request for proposal to be qualified as a Sterile Processing Technician Program. My career objective has always been to work in a setting where I find propose in caring for others. To be a member of the healthcare world has always been a long time goal. While searching for employment I came across the program in which I believe this will be a great opportunity working toward my goal. My previous employment obligations were working with individuals in a direct support setting with DDS Residential Group Homes.
Under work health and safety laws workers and other people at our workplace must take reasonable care that they do not adversely affect
Reflective Journal entry Unit 4 In today’s society, one of the primary objectives is to ensure that staffs working in the various department of the health sector have maximum protection, inclusive of the environment in which they live dwell and play. Therefore, adequate measures must be implemented to extenuated environmental and occupational hazards. The occupational and environmental health takes a multidisciplinary approach as it relates to the correct identification of diseases from exposure hazardous agents in the community of in the workplace.
On the day of July 16th, 1942 , a horrible event took place. The Vel’d’Hiv Roundup. 4,500 French policemen arrested over 11,000 Jews. Within the short time frame of a week 13,000 Jews had were being held in the Vel’d’Hiv , the winter stadium , more then 4,000 children were with them. Children two years to sixteen years of age were arrested alongside their parent or guardian.
I agree Tesheika, Industrial Hygienists have an important role in ensuring that the safety and welfare of workers is a top priority among many businesses and industries. Their job is to enhance worker environments and make them safer, and in doing so make these businesses more efficiently run. Good recordkeeping allows industrial hygienist to form a well-organized understanding of what is known about work environments, what could be improved about an employee’s work conditions and/ or working atmosphere, as well as learn about many issues that may be unknown threats to an employee’s wellbeing. By taking through and detailed notes industrial hygienists are better able to compile accurate exposure assessments and a better understanding of exposures,
The results might gain more meaning if they could be strengthened more by increased actions to establish the importance of hand hygiene among care givers (Fox, et al., 2015). This condition is made extra appealing because the existence of the untoward events such as HAIs decreases the reimbursement by health care facilities based on the rules by CMS to decrease the frequency of adverse incident in care delivery. My PICOT Question For this project portfolio, the PICOT question of interest will be, if the use of hand washing, and antisepsis lower the rate of hospital acquired
The learning objective I chose to further explore was “Explain the role of the industrial hygienist in anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace environments that may affect the health of the worker.” The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) website has a breadth articles on the specific functions of an Industrial Hygienist. The “Informational Booklet on Industrial Hygiene” has been made public for reproduction and serves as a good overview to explain the role of the industrial hygienist. (Herman & Jeffress, 1998)
When my room is in good sanitary condition, my students spread less bacteria around the room. I keep the room sanitized and healthy by making sure i wash my hands as i enter the room, and all those entering the classroom. By washing our hands upon entering, we are lessening the probabilities of bringing outside germs into the classroom. We also make sure that when our friends sneeze, they get a tissue then immediately wash their hands to keep them crispy clean. Upon entering children wash their hands and before and after each meal.
Occupational Health is an area of medicine which concentrates on work-related illness, the effects of work on health and the effects of health on work. Occupational Health seeks to promote positive health whilst working and, in many cases, whilst studying and undergoing work placements. Occupational Health is important as the provision ensures that staff and students undergo appropriate assessments and examinations to ensure that they are not risking their own health, nor the health of their service
On October 20, 2015, Subway restaurants announced an antibiotic-free policy. The announcement earned great disapproval from the livestock industry. Ranchers in Kansas are upset with the company for changing to antibiotic-free meats. Rhonda Stithem, from that cattle ranch in Kansas, says they says they have lots of mouths to feed and they have safe food in places to do that. Sometimes they antibiotics if one cow falls ill.
Health care associated infections (HAI) are one of the most common issues in hospital settings. These types of infections are not present during hospital administration but instead appear 48-72 hours after hospitalization. Common healthcare associated infections include bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. One of the most prevalent of these infections is a urinary catheter associated infection.
A source that I could have used to make my research paper stronger is the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). The NFID gives many reasons to get vaccinated, such as vaccine preventable diseases haven’t gone away, vaccines will help keep you healthy, vaccines are as important to your overall health as diet and exercise, and vaccination can mean the difference between life and death. The NFID gives many logical reasons of why to get vaccinated, this would have helped my essay because this would have backed up my argument. The NFID also gives their recommendations of when and where children should get vaccinated, I believe if parents that are scared to vaccinate their children would read over these recommendations and the FAQs
The current hospital protocol for Ebola is to identify (screen and speak up); isolate (place or in private room on contact and droplet precautions); escalate (immediate coordination of care with infectious disease, department management, and administration); and protect (use proper PPE when caring for suspected or confirmed Ebola patients). It has been said that rules and policies arise from errors and mistakes. This may very well be true, for the educational push for the current practice of caring for an Ebola patient resulted from lack of training and education regarding the screening, procedures, and care for the Ebola patient in Dallas. Four days after arriving from Liberia, Thomas Duncan arrived to a Dallas hospital ER for the chief complaint of fever, abdominal pain, dizziness, and nausea--four of the most common reasons people go to the ER. At the time of his first check in to the ED, he was treated the same as any other patient with viral symptoms and/or gastroenteritis.
There were numerous interesting cases relevant to the study that surfaced from data collection and analysis. One was a 94 year old male who had been admitted in to the care of the elderly ward, and had developed blurry vision 8 days into the admission. Following discussion in the ward round, the Foundation Year 1 doctor wrote an Ophthalmology referral form, which was faxed by the ward clerk to the ophthalmic secretaries. One secretary then brought a copy of the fax to the on call doctor, who contacted the ward to bring the patient to the eye clinic with a healthcare assistant. The receptionist at the eye clinic booked him on to the emergency clinic following which the patient had a 1 hour wait before he was seen by a doctor.
Personal hygiene can no longer be ignored. On top of the regular flue season, you have now got swine flue and other maladies to worry about. Plus, keep in mind that not everyone shares your views on personal hygiene. Just because you wash after using the rest room doesn 't mean the last guy that used the equipment did! Many health clubs offer the disinfectant spray bottles to wipe down the equipment with after your workout is over.
