Staph infections Case Study
Read the following case study from a community setting and then answer the questions. You should have to expand on the space that is shown here between questions in order to answer correctly and concisely. Please elaborate to make a thorough answer; show me you know what you are talking about. You will find the wheel in your text book on page 194 with explanation of interventions through page 206. This is to be turned in by 2359 on Sunday, March 24, 2019.
Case Study:
Increasing incidence of staph infections in one community led to a prevalence study. It was discovered that the prevalence of community acquired staph infections had doubled in this particular town. It was two visiting nurses who launched the initial investigation. They had noticed that their own caseloads had more people with staph infections being treated, who had not been recently hospitalized. They began tracking the incidence and found a trend. They followed up by creating a survey that asked questions about the activities prior to the infection. Also they did an Eco-map for each person.
They noticed that all of the people did have two things in common. They all had a relative who worked in health care in some way and all belonged to the same local ethnic affiliated club. The nurses took their findings to the local health department. The health department did a more in-depth investigation which uncovered the finding that all of the people had contact with two nurses aides who worked at a local nursing home. It was noted that the nursing home unit where they worked had multiple cases of staph infected wounds. The home had also begun a program of training certain aides to do dressing changes. Both of these aides where in that group. Once discovered that practice was stopped, and an education program on infection control was implemented in the nursing home and throughout the community.
Questions:
- Describe the reasoning behind the actions of the visiting nurses and the public health department related to public health.
- Using the public health nursing intervention wheel describe the interventions used (have as many as apply).
- What levels of practice were used and rationale for your choice?
- Indicate the levels of prevention for each intervention and rationale for your choice.
- What outcomes were expected and what might be future plans; include rationale for your choice.
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