introduction of microbiology and nursing.pptx

nursing

1. Importance of Microbiology in Nursing Practice Nurses apply the microbiology knowledge in health care for drug production, diagnosis and sterilization methods and cleanliness. • Nurses use hot water or anti-septic as a measure to sterilize the surgical knives, needles, scissors and other metals instruments. • Microbiology also gives knowledge to nurses on how to handle a patient and his samples infected with communicable diseases to free from microbes.

2. Nurses  utilize concepts of  microbiology  while giving patient care or doing procedures. To prevent spread of infection: Nurses  should have knowledge about the mode of spread of infection.

3. It also helps detect diseases like Tuberculosis by simple skin test namely the Mantoux test. • Also diagnostic tests like Elisa, electrophoreis and radioimmuno assay also use principles of microbiology for identification of disease.

4. Knowledge of  microbiology  helps a  nurse  in every field of health care. Nurses  should have known about the mode of spread of infection. This knowledge would help a  nurse  to look for specific control of the spread of infection. Nurses  also play an important role in immunization to control threats of various diseases.

5. Nurses must have sufficient education and training in microbiology to perform many roles within clinical nursing practice (e.g., administering antibiotics, collecting specimens, preparing specimens for transport and delivery, educating patients and families, communicating results to the healthcare team, and developing care plans based on results of microbiology studies and patient immunological status).

6. Establishment of clinical diagnosis. Isolation of causative agent. Determination of antibiotic susceptibility. Monitoring therapy. Prevention of infectious disease by vaccine. Provides knowledge about sterilization and disinfection. Confirmation of bacteriological cure.

7. The knowledge of microbiology in nursing is very important to control and prevent infection. Nurses and other health professionals in healthcare can learn, how infections spread and how to cure or surgery of an open wound without infecting it. The knowledge of microbiology teaches them to keep the instruments aseptic. Teaches them the nature of the organism and the factors affecting its growth, disease transmission.

8. The patients who nurses care for are often vulnerable and at increased risk of infectious disease. Nurses and other healthcare workers may carry harmful bacteria on their hands. Therefore, extra care must be taken to avoid the transfer of infectious agents from nurse to patient. Infections that are acquired while a patient is hospitalized are common unfortunately. They are sometimes difficult to treat and can be fatal. In addition, hospital-acquired infections result in lengthened hospital stays that increase the economic burden. An appreciation and understanding of microbiology and infection control is vital to nursing practice.