Cancer Center Safety

Procedures for sanitation management; all countertops bust be cleaned all the time from boxes, bottles and paper. Washing your hands is a requirement for all personal in the healthcare profession. Using PPE (Personal protective equipment) help keep personal in the pharmacy (and healthcare industry) protected against infection and spread. PPE include gloves, masks, and

In order to create a safe environment in a healthcare setting, it would be necessary to apply all four of the characteristics of a culture of safety. This would include psychological safety, active leadership, transparency, and fairness. Without ensuring that all four of those characteristics were addressed, there would be a high possibility of not having an environment that could be considered safe. It is not enough to say all of these conditions will be met, though, or all the characteristics will be addressed. Instead, it must be shown how that will be the case, in order to ensure that everyone involved understands what is at stake and how to build a safe healthcare environment. The first characteristic to be considered is the psychological safety of the people in the healthcare setting. They have to know that their concerns will be openly received by the staff and that they will be treated with respect (Simmons, 2009). Without that, they will not discuss any serious issues they are facing.

Staff must be fully trained in the service and have a very good understanding of the benefits and outcome of the treatment.

There are guidelines/protocols that have been put in place by the trust that must be adhered to by all staff. Ensure that I am dressed appropriately so that my clothing does not compromise my safety or the patients. Ensure work/clinical areas void of equipment that may constitute a hazard if stored or left in the wrong place. There is adequate information and training provided by the trust to ensure competency and safe working. For instance, when in the mould room, I have been trained to use equipment and been made aware of safe working when using the various materials and substances in the mould (i.e. lead, hot water). The body absorbs lead when you breathe in the lead dust or swallow lead when you bite your nails after working with lead

Powder free disposable gloves used for handling chemotherapeutic agents, disposable lint free gown with solid front and long sleeves with tight cuffs and back closure, eye and face protection if risk for splashing present respirator mask for cleaning spill or risk of aerosol exposure. (Pg. 2).

All patients considered as a potential source of infection and treated using standard precautions. When caring for patients with MDROs staff should use gloves, masks and gowns. All equipment used to care for the patient should be handled as contaminated and thoroughly cleaned thereafter. All sharps should be placed in designated containers. Droplet precautions include physical separation – distance of more than three feet; use of gowns, masks and goggles; proper dispose of tissues used by

For the clinic: purchases of gloves, syringes, disinfectants, any small purchases that is vital for daily use in the clinic.

The risk management program in any business, especially in a health care organization is an integral part of its day to day operation. The purpose of the risk management department is summed up by Kavaler & Alexander (2014), “…a program designed to reduce the incidence of preventable accidents and injuries to minimize the financial loss to the institution should any accident or injury occur” (p. 5). Protecting employees, patients, vendors and visitors is an ongoing process and one that needs to be updated when the healthcare organization has deemed necessary. This paper will demonstrate the importance of presenting the risk management program to new employees, compliance with the standards set forth by the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), propose recommendations or changes needed to further improve the program, as well as examine the administrative process of managing a risk program.

Personal Protective Equipment includes single-use disposable gloves and single-use aprons. Early years practitioners will need to use PPE if they come in contact with blood and body fluids.

Some of the precautions taken by the healthcare workers in the film includes the use of proper personal protective equipment such as face mask, hand gloves, footwear, gown cap. They followed proper donning of the PPE and went further to disposed the used materials by burning them. Before the healthcare workers get in contact with the patients, they made sure that the PPE are wore and when exiting they are adequately disinfected with sodium hypochlorite [ bleach] before burning the materials. Also, the hospital and the environment were continuously disinfected, likewise the patients. Dead bodies were disinfected and properly bag out of the environment to prevent the spread of the virus to others.

In regard to personal protective equipment, “donning” meaning to gown up has four levels of protection in case of a radiological attack that includes a HEPA breathing system attached to the suit (REMM, 2015). From a basic standpoint, gloves and eye protection are considered PPE, but when it comes to responding to a radiological attack or how toxic the environment is, highest level of PPE that is used. The highest level being “A” includes a full head to toe, sealed suit unit that has some form of a breathing devise enclosed which provides maximum protection from the environment exposer (REMM, 2015). These PPE units are extremely expensive and with budgets constantly being evaluated or even cut, makes it very challenging for many of our countries

Level A protection is required when the greatest potential for exposure to hazards exists for skin, respiratory, and eye protection. The personal protective equipment (PPE) must be gas-tight, vapor- tight and splash-resistant and it should be worn when there is a possible threat to life and health, or during operations dealing with an unknown hazard, such as during spill response and cleanup. For example during spill response and cleanup activities totally encapsulated chemical- and vapour-protective suits provide the maximum possible protection against all kinds

Darren, you wear the proper personal protective equipment (i.e., gloves, goggles) before you begin your work, which promotes the highest level standards within the department. You do a good job at communicating safety hazards in your

These places would be surgery, fluoroscopy, staying in the room to hold the patient, and when performing mobile exams. While being involved in one of those tasks, you must prepare yourself. This includes wearing a lead apron that covers your chest and gonadal area, along with a thyroid collar, and even lead glasses. A long term effect of radiation exposure is cataracts. If you are constantly in the surgery room using the c-arm or o-arm, or you are performing fluoroscopy exams left and right, you should wear lead glasses to protect your eyes. While performing an exam in the department, you should always stand behind the lead wall before pressing the exposure button. This guarantees that the scatter radiation will not make its way to you. If you have a patient that needs to be held throughout the exam, a technologist should be the last person to hold; a family member, friend, or even someone outside of the department should help hold the patient because they are exposed to less radiation on a daily

In addition to hand hygiene, another effective control is using personal protective equipment. This can be introduced as a policy. All clinicians and other employees who are exposed to blood and body substances should be provided equipment to protect themselves. The examples of personal protective equipment are respirators, gloves, aprons, fall protection, and full body suits, as well as head, eye and foot protection. The clinicians and other employees who are exposed to body substances should follow principles of personal protective equipment. The following principles should be adhered when using PPE. First, all clinicians and other employees who enter into patient’s treatment areas must put on the personal protective equipment in proper order