Journal of Hospital Infection - Elsevier.

Introduction Keeping patients safe is essential in today’s health care system, but patient safety events that violate that safety are increasing each year.

HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS A hospital acquired infections (HAI) or health care associated infections, also called a nosocomial infection, is an infection that first appears between 48 hours and four days after a patient is admitted to a hospital or other health-care facility. These infections were not noted to be present on the day of admission.

Importance of technology in hospitals The importance of technology in hospital: A new age of treatment Over the years, technology has turn out to be a significant component of competition in the hospital market; it is because quality kind of facilities is important in shaping any health care program.

Waking Up in a Hospital Room: A Short Story Essay 934 Words 4 Pages I woke up to the pungent smell of hospital disinfect, invading my nostrils. The room was silent apart from my heavy breathing and the beep beep sound you often hear in hospitals that indicates you're alive.

Trust Board Papers. Our Trust Board meets in public each month (although there are no meetings in April, August and September). The meetings are either held in the Boardroom at the Trust Headquarters or in the Postgraduate Medical Centre, County Hospital. Below is a list of the latest Trust Board meetings.

Patient Safety And Safety Culture Nursing Essay Across the globe, patient safety is a major determinant of quality of care and is therefore one of priorities of any healthcare institution. It is not until 1999 after a report published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have the problem of patient safety been emphasis and since then its release continue.

Infection control is very important in the health care profession. Health care professionals, who do not practice proper infection control, allow themselves to become susceptible to a number of infections. Among the most dreaded of these infections are: hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Goffman's Asylums and the Social Situation of Mental Patients Raymond M. Weinstein, Ph.D1 Erving Goffman's Asylums (1961), a participant observational study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., remains a classic more than two decades after its first publication. The book was favorably reviewed at the time and continues to sell well.

Each hospital has its own discharge policy. You should be able to get a copy from the ward manager or the hospital's Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS). Once you're admitted to hospital, your treatment plan, including details for discharge or transfer, will be developed and discussed with you.

In response to this challenge, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust developed an initiative to turn clinical waste into building materials, through the process of rotoclaving (Health Care Without Harm, 2008). This non incineration technology allows clinical waste to be recycled after treatment.

In the big hospitals, the poor are treated free, and get the best medical and surgical skill, and the care of trained nurses, for nothing. The hospitals are staffed with the best doctors, and are equipped with all the most up-to-date medical and surgical appliances.