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Fear of Hand Sanitizer, a Statistical Sampling

time; there is now a class of staphylococcus bacteria that is resistant to all known antibiotics and has been blamed for the death...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

Study Proposal on UTIs and Cranberries

and a hypothesis as well as a sampling design, data analysis plan and how the data will be collected. A statement of data analysis...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

Surgery Preparation of Hands

non-sterile paper. The participant would then use a sufficient amount of the aqueous alcoholic solution to fully cover the hands...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Dressings and Prevention of Infections Related to Catheters

risk of such infections. The CDC reports that the incidence of both local and bloodstream infections associated with peripheral ...

An Article Review on HIV/AIDS

virus they can be treated with new medications. The facts regarding HIV and AIDS are unfortunately much more disturbing. First, ...

AIDS

a HIV virus is ready to duplicate it forms long precursor chains of polyproteins which split, under the direction of another enzym...

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...

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...

Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections

This essay briefly reports study results from ten journal articles. The topic is hand hygiene and its effects on HCAIs. The simple...

Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, an Overview

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

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 ...

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...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

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

Reducing Central Line Infections

blood stream infection (BSI) (CVC, 2005). *The Central Line (CL) Bundle, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (...

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...

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...

A Proposal to Assess Measures to Prevent Infection for ERSD Patients

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the use of methods to reduce infection for patients with End Stage Renal Disease....

A Plan for Reducing Catheter Related Infection

training. In addition, the class will also require the development and distribution of training materials, including a point-by-p...

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...