scholarly journals A closer look to the high burden of the psychiatric disorders among health care workers (HCWs) in Egypt during COVID-19 outbreak

2021 ◽  
pp. e2021045
Author(s):  
Amr Ehab El-Qushayri ◽  
Abdullah Dahy ◽  
Abdullah Reda ◽  
Mariam Abdelmageed Mahmoud ◽  
Sarah Abdel Mageed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
High Burden ◽  
Care Workers

Indications for Alcohol or Bland Soap in Removal of Aerobic Gram-Negative Skin Bacteria: Assessment by a Novel Method

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 306-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra G. Eckert ◽  
N. Joel Ehrenkranz ◽  
Blanca C. Alfonso
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Complete Removal ◽  
Contact Model ◽  
Patient Contact ◽  
Gram Negative ◽  
High Burden ◽  
Skin Bacteria ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Novel Method

AbstractA patient contact model was devised for health care workers (HCWs) to define heavy hand contamination with aerobic gram-negative bacilli (AGNB) that requires alcohol for complete removal. In patients, AGNB quantitation was per ml cup scrub fluid; in HCWs, per ml glove juice. Following 15-second contact, two Proteeae groin carriers yielding ≥ 4 log10AGNB (high burden) transmitted ≥ 3 log10in 67% of 24 tests of six HCWs, and ≤ 2 log10in 29%. Two carriers yielding ≤ 3 log10(low burden) transmitted ≥ 3 log10in 8% and ≤ 2 log10in 38%. At ≤ 2 log10HCW acquisitions, soap eliminated all AGNB in six of seven tests; alcohol in nine of nine (p > 0.05). At ≥ 3 log10acquisitions, soap eliminated all AGNB in three of 10; alcohol in eight of eight Contacteight (p= 0.009). Contact with densely colonized patient skin may cause heavy AGNB contamination of HCWs' hands that generally necessitates alcohol for complete removal.

scholarly journals Tuberculosis infection control practices in a high-burden metro in South Africa: A perpetual bane for efficient primary health care service delivery

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Engelbrecht ◽  
Gladys Kigozi ◽  
Andre P. Janse van Rensburg ◽  
Dingie H.C.J Van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
High Burden ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Tuberculosis Infection Control ◽  
Tb Infection Control

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) prevention, including infection control, is a key element in the strategy to end the global TB epidemic. While effective infection control requires all health system components to function well, this is an area that has not received sufficient attention inSouth Africa despite the availability of policy and guidelines.Aim: To describe the state of implementation of TB infection control measures in a high-burden metro in South Africa.Setting: The research was undertaken in a high TB- and HIV-burdened metropolitan area of South Africa. More specifically, the study sites were primary health care facilities (PHC), thatamong other services also diagnosed TB.Methods: A cross-sectional survey, focusing on the World Health Organization levels of infection control, which included structured interviews with nurses providing TB diagnosis and treatment services as well as observations, at all 41 PHC facilities in a high TB-burdened and HIV-burdened metro of South Africa.Results: Tuberculosis infection control was poorly implemented, with few facilities scoring 80% and above on compliance with infection control measures. Facility controls: 26 facilities (63.4%) had an infection control committee and 12 (29.3%) had a written infection control plan. Administrative controls: 26 facilities (63.4%) reported separating coughing and noncoughing patients, while observations revealed that only 11 facilities (26.8%) had separate waiting areas for (presumptive) TB patients. Environmental controls: most facilities used open windows for ventilation (n = 30; 73.2%); however, on the day of the visit, only 12 facilities (30.3%) had open windows in consulting rooms. Personal protective equipment: 9 facilities (22%) did not have any disposable respirators in stock and only 9 respondents (22%) had undergone fit testing. The most frequently reported barrier to implementing good TBinfection control practices was lack of equipment (n = 22; 40%) such as masks and disposable respirators, as well as the structure or layout of the PHC facilities. The main recommendation to improve TB infection control was education for patients and health care workers (n = 18; 33.3%).Conclusion: All levels of the health care system should be engaged to address TB prevention and infection control in PHC facilities. Improved infection control will address the nosocomial spread of TB in health facilities and keep health care workers and patients safe from infection.

Organizational Factors and Health Care Workers' Physical Safety

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Lipscomb ◽  
Jeanne Geiger-Brown ◽  
Katherine McPhaul ◽  
Karen Calabro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Care Workers

Workplace verbal abuse and risk of occupational injury among health care workers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika L. Sabbath ◽  
Cassandra Okechukwu ◽  
David Hurtado ◽  
Glorian Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Care Workers
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