The nurse and her responsibility in the control of nosocomial infections
Keywords:
Cross Infection, Nursing Assessment, Disease Prevention, Phlebitis, Surgical Wound InfectionAbstract
It is established why nursing plays a key role in the prevention and spread of nosocomial infections, emphasizing the need for staff to become aware of the importance of their action in the increase or decrease of them.
The deficient application of some nursing procedures in the main infections of our hospital media are related as cause and effect: Urosepsis, Pneumonia, Infection of surgical wounds, Phlebitis post-venipuncture.
Readers are invited to investigate through well-designed protocols two topics of general interest and much needed:
1. Define the rule of permanence of a Foley Probe without offering risk, by the probe itself, of urosepsis.
2. Define the rule of permanence of a veno-puncture without offering risk by the puncture itself, of a phlebitis.
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