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Christine Tolentino
Nurs 220
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I learned that the infection risk assessment is very important during the admission
process of a patient. Identifying the risk of infection that the patient may pose during
admission will help the nurse plan accordingly to contain the infectious patient, so that it
does not spread to other patients or staff members. Once the infectious patient is placed
on the proper transmission precautions the nurse can then create a nursing care plan
specific to that patient, so that together with collaboration with other medical staff they
can eradicate the infection and help the patient get better. I will apply this knowledge to
my own clinical practice so that I can help halt the infection before it spreads to another
person. I will make sure that every patient I come across will get screened for possible
spread of infection, and if they present with any risk of infection then I will do further
investigation to determine what needs to be done to contain the infection and protect
The first student-learning outcome (SLO) that this conference met was delivering
client centered care. The conference met this SLO by enforcing and addressing multiple
policies and procedures that the medical staff has to follow in order to keep the patient
safe from possible introduction to an infection, or making the current infection worst
instead of better. For example, one of the procedures that were brought up was knowing
how to properly clean and sanitize the equipment that will be used on multiple patients.
Some facilities are not properly handling the equipment during the cleaning and
sterilizing process, which is leading to multiple infections to patients that could have been
easily preventable had they known how to properly clean their equipment. This relates to
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delivering client centered care because in order to help the patient as whole to get better
the nurse has to be aware of the equipment being used, and how it is handled and cared
The second student-learning outcome (SLO) that this conference met was
identifying nursing care situations requiring the need for delegation and leadership. The
conference met this SLO by expressing the need for the nurses to take on the leadership
role to make sure that all of their patients are safe at all times. For example, there was an
incidence in a facility were a construction worker walked into a patients room and ripped
open the wall, which was full of mold and exposed this mold to this sick patient. The
nurse in this situation should have known when the wall was going to be worked on and
should have been there to stop it from happening. When a nurse takes on the leadership
role everything needs to come across that nurse and everyone on that floor should all be
on the same page, so that when a person comes on the floor that needs guidance to what
should and should not be done at the moment goes through that nurse. Also the nurse
should delegate the work to a ward clerk to direct any unusual questions or work to the
nurse that is in charge, so that episodes like this does not occur; instead it can be
In conclusion, this conference taught me a lot on infection control and ways that
infections can be contained and who is responsible for a break in that infection chain.
The nurse should first examine a patient for their potential risk of spreading an infection,
and taking proper precautions to contain that infection. The SLOs that was met during
this conference was delivering client centered care and identifying nursing care situations
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requiring the need for delegation and leadership. These SLOs were talked about
throughout the conference and was a major key on ways to protect the patients from
unnecessary infections.