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How could MICROBES have implications within NURSING as a career?

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Microbiology is very important to the nursing profession . Nurses need the basic foundations in microbiology that helps the nurses to provide care to patient  at health care setting .

Microbiology help the nurses to prevent transfer of germs from one patient to another .

Microbiology is the study of the characteristics of tiny ,living things ,and the way they affect the world.

Nurses are involved in controlling infection in hospital ,so nurses must know about microbes .

Nurses apply the microbiology knowledge in health care for drug production ,diagnosis and sterilization methods and cleanliness .

Microbiology gives knowledge to nurses on how to handle a patient and samples infected with communicable diseases And to free from microbes.

It help to detect diseases like tuberculosis by simple skin test namely the Mantoux test .

It helps to diagnostic test like ELISA ,electrophoresis and radioimmuno assay etc.

Microbiology help to track the negative and positive outcomes of the microbes 's work.

When nurses administer the smears for gram positive and gram negative testing ,they Use microbiology to analyse the smear s for bacterial contamination .

Nurses must also Use microbiology when it comes to the disposal of biomedical waste of all types .