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Healthcare Associated Infection/MRSA & VRE

guidelines on how to address cleaning and disinfecting issues as they impact on the problem of HAIs. Before offering conclusion, t...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

Study on controlling MRSA/Article Critique

remained undetermined (Cepeda, et al, 2005, p. 295). The researchers identify associated issues and unanswered questions, which al...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

This research paper discusses management of MRSA infection within a medical/surgical unit. Three pages in length, three sources ar...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Research Questions, HAIs and Basin Baths

This research paper discusses the problem of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and literature that indicates that traditional ba...

CAUTIs and Prevention

This research paper concerns the problem of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and the prevalence of this nosoc...

Preventing Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus from Infiltrating Communities

Aureus or MRSA is a bacteria that tends to be resistant to some antibiotics ("Healthcare-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphy...

Women's Health and MRSA Infections in San Francisco Prisons

who were incarcerated at the San Francisco County jail showed a marked increase for MRSA in recent years.-- going from 29 percent ...

Nurses and Controlling Infection

appropriate. Also, when changing bed linens it is imperative that the soiled bed linens get placed in a bag and not into the clea...

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...

Family Homelessness and the Impact on Health and Healthcare Provision

as an increased occurrence in low income families it has also been noted that members of minority populations are also over repres...

A Study of Methods to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop the evidence...

Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

Comparing Healthcare in Zambia with Healthcare in United States

2007 and the disease accounts for 20% of maternal mortality and 40% if infant mortality (CSO, 2009). HIV is also a serious problem...

Nursing Economics/ Fiscal Realities

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

Healthcare Administration Leadership

to effective, responsible health policy initiatives" (Doctor in HA). Whether or not long-term goals are reached within the country...

Infection Control; Non Dedicated Equipment, Especially the Risks and Use of Scissors

that some stains of tuberculosis has become more difficult to treat as a result of the drugs that have been used and the ability o...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Case Report

neck & trunk involvement and vomiting (two-and-a-half year old); tripping, voice change, difficulty swallowing, inability to sit u...

An Abstract for a Study on CAUTI in Acute Care

essential to reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop...

Long Term Care and UTI

In ten pages this paper discusses long term care facilities associated with the treatment of urinary tract infections. Twenty fiv...

Article Review, Morris and Tay (2008)

This article review provides a summary and evaluation of Morris and Tay (2008), which refers to procedures associated with insert...

Hand Hygiene Health Care Providers

millions of people in the hospital contract infections. This means that they are not only dealing with the issue or illness for wh...

Antimicrobial Therapy, an Overview

This research paper describes the categories used to classify antimicrobial agents, the differences between viral and bacterial in...

IDS AND HEALTHCARE DELIVERY COSTS

Focuses on whether integrated delivery systems can help control healthcare costs....

Proposal for the Application of Collaborative Practices in Health Care Provision

The paper, which is written in the style of a White Paper, proposes an increased level of collaborative practices between medical ...

Cyber Attacks in Healthcare

Few people realize how vulnerable healthcare operations systems, from electronic health records to connected medical devices, are ...

Nursing Homes and Senior Citizen Infections

In eight pages this research paper discusses the serious problem of controlling senior citizen infection in a nursing home setting...