Tag: Infection
Infection occurs when an infectious agent multiplies within the body tissues causing adverse affects. When an individual has an infection, micro-organisms enter the body through a susceptible host, meaning that the infection will manifest within the body.
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Decreasing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Nursing Essays
Decreasing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections: Implementing a Two-Nurse Insertion Protocol Abstract Background: Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) ...
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Critical Review of Infection Control Precautions for Patients after Elective Surgery
Nursing Essays
1.0- Terms of Reference The aim of this report is to debate the effectiveness of interprofessional standards of infection control precaution for pat...
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Immunisation Infection Disease
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Immunisation has been continually confirmed in both research trials and in the field to be one of the most successful medical interventions we have to avert disease. As Mims et al (2004: 513) outlines...
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Hepatitis B infection: An overview
Nursing Essays
HEPATITIS B What is hepatitis B? Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. Chronic hepatitis B is a long-term infection of the liver that can sometimes develop after a bo...
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Malaria and Typhoid Fever Infection Rates in Pregnant Women
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Plasmodium falciparum and Salmonella typhiCo- infection Among Pregnant Women in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State Nigeria. Okonkwo, E. C., Nwele, D. E., Nworie, O., Agumah, N. B., Orji, J. O.and1Nwuzo, A. C. ...
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Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI): Symptoms and Causes
Nursing Essays
Reproductive tract infections (RTI) are recognized as a public health problem and ranking second – after maternal morbidity and mortality – as the cause of loss of healthy life among wome...
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Using CHG Wipes among ICU Patients to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infection
Nursing Essays
Abstract Clinical Problem: Patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU) that acquire healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are associated with increased length of stay in the hospital, rates...
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Mechanical barrier against infection
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Take Home Midterm 1.) One example of a mechanical barrier against infection would be the surface layer of our skin. The surface layer of human skin is acidic and very dry, thus making it difficult for...
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Principles of Infection Control in the Operating Department
Nursing Essays
Infection control is a vital part of everyday life in Operating theatre departments across the world. It is used to ensure patient and staff safety throughout surgical procedures and patients stay in...
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Preventing Wound Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery
Nursing Essays
Choose one gender group and critically discuss how their health outcomes can be improved in regards to ageing. Introduction Wound infection post-surgery, now preferably known as Surgical Site Infectio...
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Health Promotion and Education for HIV
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Introduction The prevalence of HIV infections has increased rapidly in recent years in the UK. In 2006, it was estimated that a total of 73,000 people were infected with HIV, with a further new 6,393...
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HIV Prevalence in Uganda
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Uganda (HIV/AIDS) Section 1: Between 2002-2011, the international non-profit NGO AVSI Foundation has supported Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTC...
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Public Health Challenges & Achievements
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This study is intended to initiate the field of public health all the way through accounts of how publichealth, exercisee has evolved authority through opposite historic challenges to the healthiness...
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The role of Epidemiology in Infection Control
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The role of epidemiology in infection control and the use of immunisation programs in preventing epidemics The discipline of epidemiology is broadly defined as “the study of how disease is distr...
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