Nosocomial Infection: Student Nurse Guidelines Compliance

Nosocomial Infection:
Student Nurse Guidelines Compliance
Nosocomial infection in any
medical settings is sometimes inevitable because
the etiologic agent can not be seen, the so
called angels of death, and there is no amount of precaution equal to an alert student nurse. Mastery
of medical settings policies must be learned first by any student nurse before attempting to work on clinical assignments. 
This must be viewed as consistent with the learned lessons on sterilization and
disinfection techniques in microbiology as well as
healthcare ethics in clinical practice. Student nurses must remember
that the lives of those who come for their services lies in their intellectual
abilities to serve with utmost caution. Models, frameworks, suggestions and recommendations
from experts also exist and are available in dealing with specific problems
arising in working areas.  There is no
alternative to maintaining hygienic, sterile, disinfected condition in medical settings. A common dilemma
is MRSA, C.DIFFICIELR (C-DIF), and Bacteremia which may be experienced by
vulnerable patients or those who are ill with respiratory
sickness and cancer patients who will
probably get nosocomial infections resulting to their lengthen hospital stay. Whether
a student nurse is working in a hospital, a nursing home,
a medical clinic, a dental
clinic, or caring for sick persons in their
homes, the student nurse must follow
standardized procedures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.  In other words lack of concentration or focus
and sloppiness must be avoided when providing patient
care.  There may be a little
variation as to the data that would support claims for cases of nosocomial
diseases, and rules and policies from county to country, from continent to
continent, from one medical setting to another, but, the very basic rules on
precaution is the same though the degree of its application may also vary.  The most common but fundamental is personal hygiene for a student nurse and the second
is personal hygiene of the patient.  This is grounded on the fact that etiologic agents reservoirs and mode of transmission are within the limits of the medical
settings. Diagnosis too must be carefully
studied as this is the basis of recommendations for medications and treatments.
Another common factor of major consideration and is highly recommended are for
student nurses to be choosy and be keen as to the institution and the department of the
institution that they should work. The institution must be well supportive of student nurses’ welfare and working
conditions. It must be supportive of the reasons why a student nurse is avid at
gaining an experience in their particular medical setting. Finally, the student
nurses must be careful in such a way that they should be given an option by the
schools where they are studying or their placement agents to choose the medical
settings of their interest and confidence as well as the specific departments that
may give a good and balanced background of work
and to not accept any blind assignments without any solid support
because compliance to any rules policies, hygiene, sterile conditions,
disinfected settings is easy in a more relax state of affairs.