Hand Gloves

Introductions Healthcare Associated Infection (HCA1) has been around for centuries, but thanks for the intervention of technology and surveillance, success has been achieved in reducing the risk in which it’s spreading. I intend to summarise the article “appropriate glove use in the prevention of cross infection” by Flores (2007), during our search for articles for the essay I found this topic eye catching because I strongly believe, as a future nurse we all have a role to play in making sure, our customers or patient leaves the hospital infection free. During the activities we were told to summaries the key message the author was trying to reach out to us, the main key points its on ways in which health professionals can avoid and prevent cross infection from spreading from one patient to another. And I believe as a future nurse apart from caring for patients these topic is one of the basic area of specialities we should all be engaged in. Listening to the news, Hospital acquire infection is also one of the major problems facing hospitals and clinical area around the world today, and also in media and public eyes. According to statistics the cost of treating patients who has been infected with one of these communicable diseases is enormous. Hospital acquire disease is also one of the biggest issues arising in the National Health Services (NHS) and it’s putting the trust into huge amount of debt. The cost of treating patients who has been infected from one of these cross infectious disease is causing the medical teams into a lot of stress and that of the patient too. Illness alone can be very stressful event for both the body and mind. A wide range of physical sensations (the effects of nausea, pain or a high temperature for example) are coupled with fears and uncertainties over their meaning. The epidemic of hospital acquired infection has been around for 100 of decades, the awareness of good hand hygiene was notified in early 1800’s due to the amount of high death rate. People have lost their lives due to the carelessness and inadequate training given to healthcare workers. Majority of the members of staff working in health care settings has not been properly educated on the uses of hand gloves, the importance of good hand hygiene after glove use, and following the normal procedure of when and when not to use hand gloves. I keep asking myself these questions regarding Healthcare associated disease, what is the knowledge people have about these communicable diseases? How well are the public aware of the communicable disease? How importance is the chain of infection and ways of avoiding it spreading it to patients to patients well interpreted to clinical members of staff? More so it is important for both healthcare workers and the pubic to understand the sources of infection and its chain of spreading before they can establish simple and sensible control measures. My chosen article for my essay “appropriate glove use in the prevention of cross infection written by Flores A (2007). Ashley Flores is senior Nurse Infection control. It’s a very wide and interesting area of branch I will really need to devote my time on and to role out the usefulness of good hand wash, because I believe as health practitioner we all have a big contribution to the health of our patients. Infection control programs are only as effective as the understanding of the staff who implements them. I hope to elaborate on the importance of good hand hygiene in not only health care settings but where ever we go and the important aspect it has on the role of been a qualified nurse, as well as explaining my academic skills in the selection of the article. This article relates very much to my field of discipline which is looking after the elderly who are vulnerable, they seem to be at a very high risk of contacting these infectious diseases due to the fact that their immune system seems not to be effective as it use to

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