Download or read book WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants. Definitions of health-care settings are proposed in Appendix 1. These Guidelines and the associated WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and an Implementation Toolkit (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/) are designed to offer health-care facilities in Member States a conceptual framework and practical tools for the application of recommendations in practice at the bedside. While ensuring consistency with the Guidelines recommendations, individual adaptation according to local regulations, settings, needs, and resources is desirable. This extensive review includes in one document sufficient technical information to support training materials and help plan implementation strategies. The document comprises six parts.
Download or read book The Fascial Distortion Model written by Todd Capistrant and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) was introduced by the American physician Stephen Typaldos (1957-2006). In this model all injuries and other conditions causing pain or disability are seen as arising from specific distortions of the connective tissue. This highly illustrated and very practical text and manual covers in detail the theoretical framework of the model, and approaches to manual therapy treatment based on an understanding of the FDM. The authors systematically cover all disorders likely to be encountered by the therapist, and provide comprehensive guidance about when it is appropriate to use FDM and how best to employ these approaches in treatment. The book is therefore of interest and value to all practitioners who want to understand the FDM and to incorporate its techniques into their therapeutic practice. This is also a comprehensive textbook and manual for anyone studying on FDM courses and for specific qualifications.
Download or read book State of the world s hand hygiene written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hands Heal written by Diana L. Thompson and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of this widely used text provides manual therapists with much-needed guidance on taking client histories, setting functional goals, communicating with health care and legal professionals, documenting outcomes, and billing insurance companies. This edition includes crucial information on HIPAA regulations, new and updated blank forms, and lists of codes for self-referred patients and for insurance verification forms. Reader-friendly features include sidebars, case studies, chapter summaries, and useful appendices. A front-of-book CD-ROM includes the blank forms for use in practice, a quick-reference abbreviation list, and a quiz tool to review key concepts. Faculty ancillaries are available upon adoption.
Download or read book Into Our Own Hands written by Sandra Morgen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.
Download or read book Medicine Hands written by Gayle MacDonald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of oncology massage is maturing into a discipline with a deeper and deeper body of knowledge. The 3rd edition of Medicine Hands reflects this maturation. Every chapter contains updated information and insights into massaging people affected by cancer. New chapters have been added to cover each stage of the cancer experience: treatment, recovery, survivorship, side effects from the disease, and end of life. These new chapters and organizational structure will make it easier for the reader to find the information needed to plan the massage session for a given client. In addition, a new chapter has been added that focuses on the Pressure/Site/Positioning framework. This is the clinical framework around which the massage session is planned.
Download or read book Hand Hygiene written by Didier Pittet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die erste umfassende und wegweisende Publikation zur Handhygiene, eines der grundlegendsten und wichtigsten Themen bei der Infektionsbekämpfung und Patientensicherheit. Für alle medizinischen Berufe ist dieses Handbuch zur Handhygiene ein wichtiges Referenzwerk, geschrieben von weltweit führenden Wissenschaftlern und Klinikern. - Geschrieben von weltweit führenden Experten des Fachgebiets. - Berücksichtigt umfassend die Richtlinien und Vorschriften der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO). - Behandelt das Thema Handhygiene aus globaler Sicht, relevant für Industrie- und Entwicklungsländer. - Erörtert grundlegende sowie hochkomplexe klinische Anwendungen der Handhygiene. - Beinhaltet neue, ungewöhnliche Aspekte und Fragestellungen, wie religiöse und kulturelle Aspekte und die Einbeziehung der Patienten. - Bietet Leitlinien für nationale und weltweite Hygienekampagnen, für jeden Einzelnen, für Institutionen und Organisationen.
Download or read book Clean Hands Save Lives written by Thierry Crouzet and published by Thaulk. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may not know it, but an innovation has made our world a better place. The use of alcohol-based handrubs protects us from infectious diseases and saves millions of lives each year through safer health care. Here is the story of this revolutionary formulation, made available without patent and offered as a gift to humanity by Professor Didier Pittet and his team at Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG). From bush doctors to giant pharmaceutical corporations, everyone can now produce effective handrubs, cheaply and easily. Didier Pittet’s medical odyssey has taken him to the four corners of the Earth. It also reveals a new path open to human society, one that pro- mises a radical shift from a predatory economic system to an economy of peace. Thierry Crouzet — blogger, essay writer, and novelist — is fascinated by contemporary issues located at the nexus of technology, politics, and lite- rature. A former journalist, his published works in French include Le Peuple des connecteurs [The Connected People], a reflection on our networked society; J’ai débranché [How I Unplugged], a tale of digital burnout; and La Quatrième Théorie [The Fourth Theory], a political techno-thriller.
Download or read book In the Hands of Doctors written by Paul E. Stepansky and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the caring dimension of medicine examines the central role of touch and procedure in building doctor-patient trust. It explores the impact of technology, the Internet, and patient rights on doctor-patient relationships, and develops proposals to recruit and train primary care physicians who are both caring and procedurally oriented.
Download or read book In Our Hands written by Laurie Swabey and published by Interpreter Education. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers evidence-based resources and a standardized body of knowledge to delineate the best practices for preparing interpreters to facilitate full access for deaf people in healthcare settings.
Download or read book Manual Medicine for the Primary Care Team written by Frank J. Domino and published by LWW. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! One of the most rewarding and helpful areas of primary care medicine is the opportunity to relieve the suffering of a patient in pain. Using a hands-on intervention can provide pain relief to the patient and professional satisfaction to the clinician. Manual Medicine offers primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants the practical, hands-on guidance needed to accurately diagnose and provide initial management of commonly seen musculoskeletal problems. Dr. Frank Domino, along with physical therapists Steve Messineo and Mark Powicki, walk you step by step through the approach to a clinical problem (such as back pain or knee pain) and treatment. These easy-to-use maneuvers provide initial treatment that reduces suffering. Starts with a patient's complaint (for example, low back pain), guiding you through the process of obtaining patient history, a brief functional physical exam, and diagnosing the problem. Equips you to use a set of physical maneuvers to provide immediate relief while a more detailed treatment plan can be developed - all clearly demonstrated both in print and in accompanying videos. Helps you learn ideally suited techniques (such as muscle energy techniques, myofascial release, and positional release (strain-counterstrain) that are extremely low risk and are far safer than other care options such as opioids or NSAIDs. Identifies specific dysfunctions based upon patterns of patient complains and physical exam findings, covering head and neck, upper back, upper extremities, lower back, hips, lower extremities, and non-musculoskeletal complaints with muscular etiologies. Includes patient resources and sample billing and coding notes in each treatment chapter. Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience with Enhanced Video, Audio and Interactive Capabilities! Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech
Download or read book Hands in Health Care written by Gayle MacDonald and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of a highly successful book - the only one available on this topic. The first edition was written by a well-known massage therapist and author, Gayle MacDonald. For the second edition Gayle has brought in a co-author, Carolyn Tague. Both are well-known and highly respected in the field of hospital massage therapy. The second edition focuses solely on the adult patient and has new chapters on aromatherapy massage, end-of-life care, cultural sensitivity and understanding the therapeutic relationship between patient and practitioner. It also incorporates new sections on addiction and neurological disorders, as well as the most recent research from around the world. The new edition is highly illustrated with full color photographs and drawings, including many new illustrations.
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Proper Hand Hygiene written by Roselyn Desiree and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the health care system the health care providers and staff are constantly trying to avoid hospital acquired infections. Insurance has decided not to pay the hospitals for hospital acquired infections and for early readmissions. Government is passing laws on withholding payment for hospital acquired infections and so hospitals are cutting down on cost and staff to meet needs. It is a constant cry of the health care system to prevent the spread of infection and are attempting to do what is right is put a stop to the spread of infection. Compliance is a major part of the breaking the link of infection. The compliance of proper hand hygiene and doing it at the appropriate times will put a halt to a wild range of diseases and infection. Having the materials needed for hand hygiene, the education and the cooperation of every staff member will do justice to the cause. The hands are the instruments available to spread or stop the spread of infections and it takes proper management of these hands to fight a worthy cause. Hands are powerful, more powerful than gloves, when the gloves are thrown away the hands carry whatever that is stuck on them from patient to patient. With naked eyes they are clear but with the microscope they glow with dangerous little creatures that can be discarded and destroy with some soap, water and a little movement. Proper hand hygiene is the answer and will never grow old or get outdated. The IMO focuses on continuous education for nurses and so to keep patients and staff safe, continuous education on hand hygiene is important and will keep staff on their heels as they see evidence of how effective hand hygiene is. The cooperative of all staff is needed to get 100% success. People do not like to be told what to do and how to do it but proper hand washing is going to effective through repetition and observation. It is the duty of every health care provider to remain calm and save lives.
Download or read book Importance of Hand Hygiene in Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections written by Bernadette Saracouli and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rush to solve problems related to the spread of health care associated infections in health care settings have prompted researchers to examine the reasons that are responsible for this costly and growing problems irrespective of how financially equip or none financially equip the health care institutions are. Many of the researchers who have look into this problem, have come to the conclusion that hand hygiene compliance is the most effective means of controlling and preventing healthcare associated infections in a health care setting (National Health Service Foundation Trust, 2008). The hands are the main cooperates that carries millions of harmful germs and if not cleaned, these germs can easily be transmitted between health care workers and patients and vise vasa (NHS Foundation Trust, 2008). Most health care workers are aware of the role proper hand hygiene plays in curtailing the spread of healthcare associated infections but unfortunately the cavalier attitude and noncompliance of the act of hand hygiene itself have led to a culture of repeated laps in judgments and thus facilitating the spread of nosocomial infections in health care settings. Acknowledging the problem of noncompliance with hand hygiene alone is not enough for health care institutions despite it is a start of addressing the problem that is why these institutions have embarked on an expensive but thorough methods of bringing into compliance its staff, patients and visitors of proper hand hygiene practices to acceptable Center for Diseases Control and prevention (CDC) recommendations of hand hygiene guidelines The measures adopted by these health care institutions include but are not limited to the availability of materials such as additional hand hygiene stations, placement of alcohol based hand sanitizers at strategic locations all over their respective institutions for staff, patient and visitors to use, conduction of educational programs to improve the awareness and knowledge of hand hygiene practices, placement of posters and brochures to remind people to wash their.
Download or read book Clean Hands Protect Lives written by Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand Hygiene for All Initiative written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hands on Health written by Rn Chc Youmell and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands-On Health seeks to entice you to eat healthier; move your body more frequently; get outside into the natural world we are inherently a part of; sleep better; and take good, wholesome, natural care of your body, mind, and soul. “This book was written for me, wasn’t it? You have ruined me for the Standard American Diet (SAD). And, for the record, I am so glad!” Kelly Burnham, Editor and whole food enthusiast “Paula has a wonderful healing presence. She has opened my eyes to healthier living.” —S. Montgomery, healthy client! “My cure-all, my magic bullet!” Betsy H. “Thanks for helping my whole family eat better and feel healthier!” Denice N
