When people need surgery, they go to the hospital to get help. There, special tools are used to cut open the patient. When these tools are used they must be one hundred percent clean, of bacteria or any other foreign material. This will ensure the patient doesn’t contract any foreign materials in the body. To clean the tools, they are ran through an autoclave which sterilizes the equipment. The machines use steam, heat and pressure to kill any foreign material on the tools. I’m able to help out with this process by working on the units to make sure they work properly. I inspect these units in hospitals all over Arkansas. During my inspection I look over the unit, replace parts and, and perform test runs. Let me explain my step by step process I take when I examine these machines. When I start the inspection, I look …show more content…
I look through lines looking for any steam leaks or water dripping from the unit. I inspect any air lines. Looking for any corrosion or rust on the machine. Making sure all components are working properly and installed correctly. Next I look over any wires, making sure there not broken or frayed. This will ensure all components on the unit are in working condition. After I make sure everything looks okay, I start working on anything that does need replacing. I turn off all power sources to the unit. Shutoff any open water valves or air valves. After making sure all utilities are closed to the machine, it’s safe to start work. I begin by replacing old worn or broken valves. This requires loosening and undoing connecting pipes and swapping the old valves for new valves. Once all broken valves are fixed I move on. Some valves are used more than others, which leads to them wearing out faster. So certain valves, even if still working properly get rebuilt. This helps
During the 1960’s, America’s solution to the growing population of mentally ill citizens was to relocate these individuals into mental state institutions. While the thought of isolating mentally ill patients from the rest of society in order to focus on their treatment and rehabilitation sounded like a smart idea, the outcome only left patients more traumatized. These mental hospitals and state institutions were largely filled with corrupt, unknowledgeable, and abusive staff members in an unregulated environment. The story of Lucy Winer, a woman who personally endured these horrors during her time at Long Island’s Kings Park State Hospital, explores the terrific legacy of the mental state hospital system. Ultimately, Lucy’s documentary, Kings
Due to the complexity and diversity of the modern day anaesthetic machine, each individual manufacturer specifies their own pre-anaesthetic checks. Alongside these manufacturer checks there are also specific guidelines that need to be followed to ensure the correct functioning of anaesthetic equipment and airway management at the start of each day and before each individual procedure. The AAGBI guidelines 2012 (see appendix 1) specify that a routine pre-use check of an anaesthetic machine should be undertaken by a staff member that is appropriately trained to do so; it should be performed in the anaesthetic room to be used and confirmation of these checks should be documented appropriately in the log boo...
Decontamination packing and sterilization of surgical instrumentation. 2. Prosing and reposing of procedures reusable medical devices. 3. Cleaning testing assembly, and distribution of movable patient care equipment.
One of the most common forms of errors found in the medical field is the recycling of soiled equipment. The repeated use of dirty medical equipment is found commonly in the poor regions of the world
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
During an incorrect count, the scrub nurse should notify the surgeon immediately, and the count should be completed again (Phillips, 2013). The circulating nurse should check the floor, trash, furniture and the entire operating room (Phillips, 2013). The scrub nurse should check the mayo stand and the drapes (Phillips, 2013). The surgeon will check the wound and surgery field (Phillips, 2013). The immediate supervisor should be notified and should check the count and help the team with the search (Phillips, 2013). If the search is unable to find the missing item, then the surgeon will decide whether or not to close the wound before an x-ray is taken. In any case of an unresolved count, an x-ray should be completed before the patient exits the operating room (Phillips, 2013). This x-ray will show if any item is still in the patient (Phillips, 2013). An incident report should be completed by the circulating nurse and documentation should be made on the operating room record even
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Staff Analysis Statement of Problem HCA, after following a conservative financial policy since its establishment, has entered the new decade preparing to make some changes in order to realign their financial strategy and capital structure. Since its establishment, HCA has often been used as a measure for the entire proprietary hospital industry. Is it now time for the market to realign their expectations for the industry as a whole? HCA has target goals that need to be met in order to accomplish milestones in the future.
MAINTENANCE: Keep our station and boats running and looking great. Preventative maintenance, material condition, and house-keeping are the responsibilities of everyone.
I met with Mr. Willie James Prescott at The Harlem Hospital Center – Harlem Rehabilitation – Community Support Systems Program in 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, New York on Thursday, February 16. He has been the Director of the Harlem Hospital Center, Community Support System services program an affiliate of the Department of Psychiatry outpatient services for twenty years and was previously a Clinical Coordinator with the department. We met in his office on the 3rd floor of The Women’s Pavilion Building.
First I look at the wiring and hoses for cracks, and for something that has become disconnected. For example, a vacuum hose on an older car sometimes becomes hard from the engine heat and can become loose or disconnected because of normal vibration. Then I look at the battery post for that greenish colored corrosion on the battery post. If there is some I clean it off using backing soda mixed in water. I am careful
Through education, I will teach patients the importance of vaccinations, hand washing, and body hygiene. To prevent the spread of infection, I will implement my standard precautions and any isolation precautions that my patients are ordered. Standard precaution, a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases, include personal protective equipment, needle safety, patient care equipment, and most importantly, hand hygiene. These standard precautions should be used with every patient encountered, as the most basic level of infection control. At an injury site, whether it be surgical or trauma, I will monitor and assess for signs of infection, such as: redness, yellow/green pus, swelling, tenderness, pain, warmth, and fever. When caring for patients, who already have an infection, I will monitor for signs of sepsis - fever, hypotension, increased heart rate, elevated blood glucose, confusion, and thrombocytopenia. Infections can occur to any individual, often standing as a diagnosis for patients. It is my job as the nurse to prevent infections, assess and monitor for deviations, and treat the infection when given
Washing of the hands with antiseptic soap after a contact with saliva, open wounds, blood, urine, vomitus or stools. The washing should last for at least 30 seconds. Because of the risk of infection with HIV, protection of the physiotherapist should also include work wear, plastic medical gloves and mask. The physiotherapist should be able to treat each patient as an individual. Human dignity must be respected. Small details such as the use of the first name of the patient, the complete explanation of the whole treatment details and continuous guidance for the patient’s orientation at the place and time are widely applied. The recovering environment of the intensive care unit should include the presence of windows to make the accommodation of the patient more pleasant and help him orientate in time. Applying all that non clinical aspects during the treatment will give a positive outcome on the treatment and together with the experience will make the work much more
Although the importance of aseptic technique has been continually reiterated, I have realised its substantial role in the perioperative environment. Aseptic technique refers to the practice of creating and maintaining a sterile environment used for sterile procedures (Laws, 2010a). This is incredibly important as repetitive minor breaches of the sterile environment is one of the major factors increasing the risk of surgical site infection (Harrop et al., 2012).
Visit Report on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Introduction For my visit on the applications of physics, I went to Queen Elizabethhospital on the 10th of November 2004. The Queen Elizabeth hospital operates the largest critical care unit in Europe, which is combining intensive therapy with high dependency units. The hospital situated in Selly Oak is a distance of one and a half miles from the SellyOakHospital between them there are approximately 5900+ employees. Queen Elizabeth Hospital is aimed, to the adult population mainly in the West Midlands and offers a range of health services; bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, cancer, renal and trauma services etc. The QueenElizabethHospital has been ranked at three stars in 2001-02 and treats over 650,000 patients each year.
This research paper discusses some of the health care administrators’ daily activities that that may turn hazardous to the resources. This has been done in view of a hospital as an example of healthcare facility. The main reason for this is that a hospital is a complex, bustling patient centre and an interdisciplinary workplace for various personnel; yet the responsibility of keeping it running lies with the hospital administrator.