Healthcare provider plays a major role in preventing the spread of infectious agents from the ill patients
Discuss how the healthcare provider can prevent the spread of infectious agents.
How can we prevent the spread of the Coronavirus and other viruses over the next few years, and what healthcare safety measures should we implement?
Design an emergency room waiting room that can prevent the spread of infectious microbes to healthy patients and family members. In the design, address the following aspects of the emergency department, including: the triage process, the check-in procedure, the waiting area, furniture choices, cleaning procedures, Personal Protective Equipment, and room design. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Discuss the most likely infectious diseases to be present in developing countries (pick a country). What are they? How do the causative agents create disease? What is the route of transmission or infection? What can be done to prevent or limit the disease?
How can you protect yourself and your patients from transmission of infectious agents?
Discuss the psychological impact of disasters. How would you, as the primary healthcare provider, care for your patients’ psychological needs? What needs do you anticipate? What screenings should be used? How can you effectively manage transitions, grief, and stress?
Discuss two characteristics of infectious disease agents that interest you the most, including why you find these most remarkable.
Discuss the psychological impact of disasters. How would you, as the primary healthcare provider, care for your patients’ psychological needs? What needs do you anticipate? What screenings should be used? How can you effectively manage transitions, grief, and stress
Discuss the basic elements of healthcare insurance provider contracts from both a provider and a payer perspective. Is there a significant impact for one party over the other and why or why not?
Imagine you work in the infectious disease department of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recently, an unknown emerging disease has begun to spread in the United States that seems to show symptoms similar to influenza and measles. Not all people infected show all the symptoms, and current vaccinations do not prevent a person from catching the unknown disease. Apply the knowledge you know now about infectious agents and means of transmission. For this assignment: Provide a brief overview...
Choose several infectious diseases and analyze how they are spread, using the chain of infection. Examples are AIDS, rabies, cryptosporidiosis, cholera, malaria, smallpox, syphilis. For each disease, how can the chain of infection be interrupted?