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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...

Basin Baths and Nosocomial Infections

This research paper offers a brief literature review that indicates that basin baths promote bacterial growth and, therefore, incr...

Nosocomial Infection Risk and Basin Baths

This research paper begins with a problem statement that concerns the need to reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired (nosocomia...

Nosocomial Infections

This research paper reports on recent studies that concern the most prevalent pathogens causing nosocomial, that is, hospital-acqu...

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 ...

Decreasing Nosocomial Infection Rates,Hand Hygiene,

This research paper presents project, which is designed to decrease the ratite of nosocomial, that is, hospital-acquired infection...

Causes and Prevention of Nosocomial Infections

In five pages this report discusses nosocomial infections that can occur in a clinical or hospital setting in a consideration of c...

An Article on Nosocomial Infection Reviewed

The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to basics - hand washing, surface dis...

Long Term Health Care Facilities and Nosocomial UTI Infections

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

Information on Nursing Homes

This paper consists of five pages and considers three issues as they pertain to nursing homes including nursing rates of pay betwe...

CAUTIs and Prevention

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

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Nosocomial Capstone Project, Theory

This paper describes Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring as the theoretical foundation for a project on the problems of n...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Hand Hygiene Project, Part B

that the research report does not offer a description of the study instrument, nor does it offer details on the methods of data an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Use of Presurgical Washing

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

Research Questions, HAIs and Basin Baths

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

Antimicrobial Therapy, an Overview

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

Proteus Vulgaris

2007). Increased risk to the bacilli is found in patients which have suffered from redcurrant infections, those with urethral inst...

Hospital-Acquired Infections and the Vulnerability of Medicare

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

Preventing Infection In Health Care Settings

2008). This should be a good incentive for all health care institutions to do a better job of controlling and preventing infection...

Hospital Disclosure

hospital is not exactly easy, and in some cases impossible." This would suggest that Auers (2006) reported average of five percent...

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...

Nosocomial Project, Disseminating Evidence

This paper provides an overview of how to disseminate evidence regarding a research project to both stakeholders that the wide nur...

Infection Sentinel Event Outcomes

myriad. They can range from poorly designed equipment to overwork; poor communication to lack of safeguards (Kohn, Corrigan and D...