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PubMed1996

[Hospital infections in teaching hospitals: analysis of their control].

The purpose of this study is to identify methodologies of vigilance and hospital infection control, to analyse nurse's actuation in the context of hospital infection control and to associate nurse's actuation on the control of hospital infection and the execution of nursing process. It is an analytic-descriptive study developed at 81 Commissions of Hospital Infection Control (CCIH) at School Hospitals from 21 Brazilian states through a questionnaire. The variables studied were: characteristics and functioning of CCIH; criteria to diagnose hospital infection; methods of data collection; types of epidemiological vigilance, prevention and control measures and nurse's participation. The analysis of data was qualitative and quantitative. The results showed that in the collection of data prevailed general vigilance (66.6%) and the association of passive and active methods (48.4%); 67 CCIH mentioned measures of prevention and control, related to urinary tract (54 CCIH) and to respiratory tract (21 CCIH). The antimicrobian control distinguishing the lack of resonance between the CCIH and the units personnel brings to the conclusion that the problems of hospital infection control are, in their essence, of philosophical, educational or administrative character. Authors evidenced the importance of the implementation of methodologies to facilitate the control of hospital infection, indicating that the adoption of nursing process, as an instrument, can result in benefits to CCIH and to patients.

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PubMed1996

Ventilator tubing change times and the infection control nurse.

In line with the dramatic revolution in healthcare delivery within the last decade, the role of the infection control nurse (ICN) as first described by Brendan Moore (1959) must change to meet today's expectations. This article suggests that ICNs should function as clinical nurse specialists (CNS). The author shows how this change in role can be used to implement research-based practice by using the example of changing ventilator tubing change times.

Cross Infection↗
PubMed2002

This could catch on.

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Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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Assess your options.

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Accreditation↗
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Clinical pinnacle.

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Career Mobility↗
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Under surveillance.

This article outlines the importance of surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), and argues for extension of mandatory surveillance.

Communicable Disease Control↗
PubMed1990

The role of medical records in infection control.

The concept of "infection" has been well known to the medical world ever since an interest began to be taken in medicine. Infection has taken many hundreds of thousands of lives, and even today it is a very serious threat for human beings. Hospital, or nosocomial infections (NCI) are a major health problem in every medical institution in the world. In the light of the seriousness of the problem, this paper is to demonstrate how medical records can play an important role in effective alerting and infection control programmes before an outbreak turns into an epidemic.

Cross Infection↗
PubMed1990

Directory of education.

One of the most important tools to career building and personal satisfaction is education! The fields of central service and materiel management, like other professional fields, have an assortment of educational opportunities that you should take advantage of. Some are available through your professional associations (see the "Directory of Associations" for more information on those). Others are available through correspondence courses, on-site courses at local colleges and universities, and from seminar programs of associations, vendors and seminar groups. We've assembled a list of courses and seminars of interest to you and your colleagues. There may be others offered in your area, so contact your local institutions of higher learning to take advantage of what they have--or to develop a course with them!

Allied Health Occupations↗
PubMed1991

1992 career guide. Best jobs for the future. Salary survey.

The best news many workers are looking for when annual review time rolls around this year is that they'll have a job for the foreseeable future. A raise? That's surely hoping for too much. Indeed, some 10 percent of the organizations surveyed by the Wyatt Co., a compensation and benefits consulting firm in New York, have frozen wages this year. About 3 percent plan to do the same in 1992. But salaries have clearly been pummeled harder in some industries than in others. The paychecks of people who work in the retail trade and in the building materials and equipment industry, for example, have barely kept pace with inflation this year. Next year promises more of the same. Those in the legal field, by contrast, enjoyed raises of 8 percent in 1991, and nurse-anesthetists averaged 10 percent. Across the board, salaries in 1991 went up 5.5 percent. But businesses are cynical about the economy's prospects, says Wyatt compensation expert Marsha Cameron, and their planned raises for 1992 average only 5.3 percent. To determine where a profession pays best, U.S. News, in conjunction with Wyatt, took a look at what 18 jobs pay on average at the entry, senior professional and middle manager levels in five regions of the country. The salaries come from Wyatt's survey of more than 3,500 organizations across the United States. New graduates in software engineering may want to send their résumés to Texas and Colorado, for example, where starting salaries, at $34,200, average $6,200 more than in Alabama and Georgia.250+

Career Choice↗
PubMed1995

Battling bacteria.

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