NAIL DUST & CROSS INFECTION

Nail Dust & Cross Infection via Instrumentation

Implications of Nail Dust and Cross Infection

Introduction

Hygiene maintenance is the foremost job at the hospital setting where the patients when come are already receptive to catching diseases. Unfortunately, not all the hospitals take concrete measures in order to attain excellent hygienic condition and there has to be profound strategies to prevent the spread of infections. The environment matters a lot including all professionals in the hospital setting like all kind of staff members from ward boy to a surgeon. The hospitals must adopt certain attitude and communicate it throughout their employees. The transmission of infections or microorganisms can occur due to direct contact with the contaminated equipments or indirect way as an outcome of touching hands. The NHS (National Health Service) code of practice has come up with strategies on the deterrence and control of HCAIs (Healthcare Associated Infections). It came into being to provide with professional help to enable the planning and implementation of the thought strategies (Barker et al., 2004).

The aim is to offer and treat the patient in a clean environment with minimal risk. This essay aims to explore how nail dust and other cross infection via instrumentation spread the diseases among the patients. The nail dust is a crucial carrier of many momentous diseases and without knowing the implications doctors, nurses and other staff may be spreading it. The patients are already in their weak states that imply to their condition in which they can quickly catch further diseases. The other aspect is the spread of disease due to the frequent use of the same instrument while treating patients. This may include the apparatuses for diagnosis, equipments and even furniture. Nosocomial infection is contamination in which they diseases are spread to the setting of the hospitals. The patients do not bring these infections with them, but they catch them in the middle of their treatment (Lucet et al., 2002).

Discussion

Cross Infection

There are two aspects of infection; they are nail dust and cross infection via instrumentation. In the United Kingdom, the probable costs to NHS (National Health Service) for caring patients that registers for healthcare related infection is more than one billion pounds a year. Such infections at hospitals are the result of a broad variety of organisms and give an extensive range of symptoms from negligible distress to severe disability and in some worst cases even death. Infection is an incursion of and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms present in the body parts or tissue which in turn cause substance named pathogens (Weston, 2013).

Cross infection is the actual physical transmission or transfer of injurious bacteria from person to person, objects or places, from one body part to another. The common thing that happens frequently is the touching of eyes that causes instant infection. On incidents when these cross infections take place at a hospital setting or long term care-facility it exhibits Nosocomial Infection. There is community acquired infections that are the ones caught anywhere except a ...