Hospital Acquired Infections: The Uncharted Killer
"PLEASE" this is the final assignment, I need an A to balance the last one i got which was a mid B and I also need it by Friday afternoon(on the 10th - 11/10/2017) to revie and it has to go through something called 'safe assign'. The assignment it self is due on Saturday 11/11/2017 by 12:15am. the latestOne of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users. In this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of interest to you.
To prepare:
-Select a health issue of interest to you.
-Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate about this issue.
-Search the Internet to find credible sites containing information about your selected topic.
-Review the two health literacy websites listed in this week's Learning Resources. Focus on strategies
for presenting information.
To complete:
-Design an educational handout on the health issue you selected.
-Include a cover page.
-Include an introduction that provides:
-An explanation of your issue and why you selected it
-A description of the audience you are addressing
In the handout itself:
-Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.
-Include a description of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e.,
key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).
-Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.
Note: Remember to keep the information in your health handout and its design at the appropriate level for the audience you are seeking to inform. Submit your Assignment as a Word document.
See the attached Week 11 Guidance Document as well as a sample option for creating the flyer portion of the assignment using Word. (The point allocations are out of Date, as we now have a new grading tool)
Creating it in Word makes it much easier to attach to the paper; insert a Section Break if needed so you can adjust the margins
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HEALTH INFORMATION VISITORS HANDOUT
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HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS: THE UNCHARTED KILLER
Visiting a Health care facility? Beware. Your actions can spread serious infections.
What are Hospital Acquired Infections?
These are simply infections spread/acquired in the hospital and medical care facilities.
Hospital-acquired infections have persistently manifested as cataclysmic problems. These are also known as nosocomial infections and usually emerge from one’s stay at a medical facility/ hospital (Banach et al., 2015). For these hospital-acquired infections, the infection is not apparent prior to the medical care and care delivery. This means that the infections are not present or nurturing at the time of visit to the hospital. The cases of healthcare-associated infections persist with the increased complexities of medical care and increased antimicrobial resistance.
These are a critical health care concern as they account for ten percent of deaths in healthcare settings, thus, are a preventable yet deadly threat to human safety. Visitors may include any guest to the hospital that may be visiting a patient or a hospital staff member. Visitation in hospitals is inevitable thus very common and frequent as visitors check up on their hospitalized loved ones. Visitors, as well, can act as vectors for microorganism transmission in the health care facilities. They are also at potential risk of acquiring infections in the course of their visits. Visitor’s risk levels of acquiring an infection in the course of a hospital visit depend on their immune status, the kind of pathogens and the extent of exposure to the pathogens. It is still a challenge to protect visitors of patients on airborne precautions. Hence, the adherence of hospital visitors with/to infection control guidelines and precautions is crucial in fighting hospital-acquired infections. Some visitors such as volunteers and non-hospital appointed clergy may be unavoidably visiting more than one patient. These visitors require need more stringent infection control and prevention precautions as afforded to hospital staff.
These are increasingly apparent and leading causes of the increasing health care costs, morbidity, and mortalities in the health care system. Hospital-acquired infections are the inadvertent outcome of care delivered by healthcare facilities.
Who are at risk?
Healthcare-associated infections can spread from and to the hospital staff, the visitors and the patients.
Evidence-based Source
According to the World Health Organisation Fact Sheet, infections acquired in health care settings are the most common inimical and detrimental events in the health care delivery globally.
Prior investigation in a given hospital setting has implicated the spread and source of tuberculosis throughout the hospital to a hospital visitor.
Did you know?
* Hospital-acquired infections (nosocomial infections) account for the majority of the infectious diseases that occur in the medical facilities.
* World Health Organisation documents that among one hundred admitted patients at any given time, ten in developing countries and seven in developed nations will get at least one nosocomial infection (World Health Organization, 2014).
* It is a safety concern for not only the patients but also to the hospital staff too.
* These deadly hospital-acquired infections are mostly and simply preventable.
* INFECTION CONTROL AND PREVENTION ALL STARTS WITH PROPER HAND HYGIENE. Proper hand hygiene is the most basic, safest and best method of controlling and preventing the spread of germs and infections.
* Using alcohol-based hand rubs is the utmost efficient way to lessen and prevent the spread of germs and infections.
Common determinants of spread of hospital-acquired infections in a facility
* Lack of procedures
* Lack of/ inadequate/improper infection control surveillance, guidelines, measures, standards, and protocols.
* Poor knowledge and ignorance of infection control measures/practices.
* Poor infrastructure and lack of sufficient equipment.
* Poor hygiene and sanitation measures.
* Understaffing
* Overcrowding
Please help prevent and stop the spread of germs and infections!
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