When we encounter patients with serious infectious diseases in our daily lives, in order to protect the lives and health of other patients and ourselves, we should actively control infectious diseases and do a good job in daily work protection. This article provides a specific description of this issue.
1. Infectious disease control
We should strengthen infectious disease control from three aspects: infectious sources, transmission routes, and susceptible populations.
From the perspective of infectious sources, we should do a good job in disinfecting and isolating the rooms of infectious disease patients, and try to choose independent wards or rooms that are far away from other places for patients as much as possible. At the same time, we should detect, report, treat, and diagnose patients who may have infectious disease risks as early as possible to avoid posing a threat to the lives and health of other personnel;
From the perspective of transmission routes, infectious disease patients can spread through air, droplets, excrement, and close contact with objects. Therefore, when placing infectious disease patients and ordinary patients, we should avoid convective winds. At the same time, when nursing and treating infectious disease patients, we should wear isolation clothes and masks with strong airtightness. Before and after nursing and treatment, we should wash our hands and disinfect them in a timely manner. When handling patients' clothes and bedding, we should soak them in disinfectant before cleaning. For patients' excrement and residual items during dressing changes, we should burn them in a timely manner to avoid posing a threat to the personal safety of other personnel;
From the perspective of susceptible populations, pregnant women, children, and the elderly, who have average immune systems, are the key targets of our protection, especially children. Children are naturally lively and cannot control their daily activities at all times. It is necessary to avoid contact with infectious disease patients as much as possible. For pregnant women, the elderly, and others, timely health education should be carried out to help them deeply realize the importance of self-protection and minimize the scope of infectious diseases.
2. Protective work of nursing staff
The protective work of nursing staff mainly analyzes from three aspects: hand hygiene, use of protective materials, and improvement of their own immunity. At the same time, they must strictly follow the concept of sterility in their daily work process.
Hand hygiene: During daily work, nursing staff's hands may come into direct or indirect contact with infectious disease patients' items, residual drugs, etc. Therefore, strengthening hand hygiene is the first step in protective work. Nursing staff should remember the seven step washing method and various applicable situations for hand washing, choose hand sanitizers with good disinfection and less hand irritation, and if conditions permit, do a good job of hand care after disinfection to avoid hand injuries.
Use of protective equipment: Protective equipment can effectively isolate nursing staff and infectious disease patients, especially masks, which can effectively prevent droplet transmission. Therefore, in the process of caring for infectious disease patients, relevant nursing staff should wear protective goggles, face masks, masks, gloves, and isolation clothing. They should strictly follow the concept of sterility when wearing protective equipment to avoid secondary pollution and infection.
Enhanced immunity: Good physical fitness can help us effectively avoid the invasion of some bacteria and viruses. Therefore, nursing staff should strengthen physical exercise and good hygiene habits. If conditions permit, they can use cupping, moxibustion and other methods to maintain health, timely supplement various nutrients such as vitamins and proteins, form good eating habits, go to bed early and wake up early, and improve sleep quality.