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Symptoms and Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Cellulitis is an "infection of the skin"; boils are "pus-filled infections of hair follicles"; abscesses are "collections of pus u...

Strict Glycemic Control and the Prevention of Deep Wound Infections in Open Heart Surgery Patients: Proposed Research

in their glycemic index, present many concerns in the post operative environment. This is particularly true for patients that are...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

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

Urinary Tract Infections

An additional complicating factor for women is that, unlike males, they do not have the advantages of prostatic secretions that ac...

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...

Hand Washing Project

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

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Study on controlling MRSA/Article Critique

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

Century of Controlling Infections from 1850 until 1950

In five pages this paper discusses the milestones regarding the control of infections during this time period in a consideration o...

Nursing History and Controlling Infection

This history of nursing considers how antibiotic and antisepsis control of infections developed in five pages. Two sources are ci...

Overview of Skin Disorders

and keratin fragments to adhere to the sebum and block the follicle opening. Bacteria trapped with free fatty acids within the fo...

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...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

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

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

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...

Search Parameters, Infection Control

This paper indicates that the writer conducting a database search on the topic of hospital-acquired infections. The writer discuss...

How to Utilize Databases

This paper pertains to the health challenge inherent in hospital acquired infection and focuses on the process of searching databa...

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...

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 ...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...

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...

Babesia Microti Overview

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at babesia microti. Causes of infection and treatment are analyzed. Paper uses five so...

Assessing Risk in Critical Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the problem of infections contracted in the hospital setting and considers the i...

Nosocomial Infections

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

Basin Baths and Nosocomial Infections

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

Replacing Basin Baths, A Study Proposal

This research paper describes a proposed research study that investigates whether or not traditional basin baths constitute a sour...

A Proposed Study, Design, Sampling and Ethics in

This research paper presents an example paper pertaining to the way in which a proposed research study examining the effect of pat...

Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, an Overview

This research paper presents an overview of diagnosis and treatment for vaginitis, focusing specifically on infection caused by vu...