Content
- Lectures: 10 hours
- Exercises 5 hours
- Independent work: 15 hours
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Description
Subject content
1. nosocomial infections and patient safety
– Prevention and control of nosocomial infections in nursing care – a brief historical overview
– Standard measures for control of nosocomial infections and the role of nursing care
– The importance of prevention of nosocomial infections, the results of measures in the field of nursing care, and statistics
2. hands hygiene – leading measure in preventing nosocomial infections
– Hands as source of infection in health care
– The principles of hands hygiene – 5 steps WHO
– Washing hands – hygienic, surgical, mistakes
– Disinfecting hands – how, why, when, mistakes
– The importance of hands’ skin care
– The use of gloves – principles, mistakes
3. personal hygiene and tidiness of health care professionals
– The importance of personal hygiene and professional tidiness in preventing the transmission of infections
4. usage of standard protective agents
– Types, principles of usage, how they protect
5. removal of infected devices for single use, cleaning, disinfection, sterilization
– Disinfectants, types, preparation
– Sterilization
– Work with hazardous waste in health care
6. patient’s surroundings as source of infection
– Cleaning and disinfecting patient’s surroundings
7. working with hospital linen
8. prevention of injuries with sharp instruments
– Measures in case of injuries – stab, cut, spilled infectious liquid
9. work in isolation
– Types of isolation
– Preparing the room for isolation
– General rules of contact isolation
– MRSA – collecting samples, decolonization
10. practical demonstrations and independent implementation in the context of laboratory work
– Hand washing – with control
– Hands disinfection – with scenarios and control
– Putting on and removing gloves and other protective agents
– Preparation of disinfectants
– Preparing and closing the septobox
– Patient’s surroundings
