[Conditions and roles of nurse's care for patients treated in nosocomial infections].
The important task in this problem is to lay the main rules for work with patients who are treated for nosocomial infection. Each one of the medical staff, who are in contact with the infected patient, must be informed about these rules and strictly use these rules in his own work. It is important to determine the strict schedule of each medical activity and care for patient and insist on strict observance of this schedule. We recognize that this is very important because the patient is undergoing special care, we have to try to take his mental and psychical status on consideration. From this point of view it is important considerate approach to the patient. It is essential to monitor and collect all laboratory results and also other informations about the patient. We need these informations not only for appropriate maintenance of the patient, but also for preventing the spread of the infection. For improving the quality of care for the patient it is supposed that it is very necessary to have in the department a special person-probably specially trained nurse-who will maintain the countermeasure, the collection and analysis of the laboratory results. It is also important to accomplish this kind of service 24 hours per day. . Of course it is clear that the use of specially trained nurses and the use of only disposable materials in the care of the patient is very costly, but we can expect economic effects in the decrease of occurrence and spread of infections diseases in our department and our hospital.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Medical Hospital, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
D001512:Bedding and Linens; D003020:Clothing; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D009732:Nursing Care; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012380:Role; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification