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Breanna Welch

October 12, 2015


UWRT 1101
Critical Thinking Essay: Hospital Acquired Infections
There are a lot of hot topics in nursing. The one that particularly caught my
eye was hospital acquired infections. Hospital acquired infections are caused by
viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens. The most common types are bloodstream
infection, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and surgical site infection. For hospital
acquired infections in general, you should take standard precautions to make sure
things go smoothly. Standard precautions are washing your hands, making sure
that, if entering the body in any way, the equipment is sterile, also you must be
wearing gloves.
Bloodstream infections, are infections that happen strictly in the blood. The
most common occurring bloodstream infections are caused by catheters. A catheter
is a flexible tube inserted through an opening into the bladder, to remove fluid.
These infections can happen for a number of reasons but the most common are, not
taking standard precautions. To determine whether or not a patient has a blood
stream infection, blood has to be taken and a blood culture performed. A blood
culture is a blood culture is a test to detect germs such as bacteria or fungi in the
blood. ("Blood Culture." KidsHealth. Ed. Yamini Durani. The Nemours Foundation, 01
May 2012. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.) The most common treatment for bloodstream
infections is antimicrobial therapy, which is basically taking antibiotics.

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