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2. Hospital-acquired infection - Wikipedia

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   Infectious disease. A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility. [1] To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare-associated infection. [2]

3. Hospital-Acquired Infection: Definition and Patient Education

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   About 1 in 10 of the people admitted to a hospital will contract a HAI. They’re also associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and hospital costs. As medical care becomes more complex ...

4. How to Clean: Tips for a Healthy Home and Safer Indoor ...

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   Things you can do to kill germs on a sponge include: placing the sponge in the dishwasher with a high temperature and the drying cycle on. wetting it and putting it in the microwave for 1–2 ...

5. Housekeeping - Wikipedia

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   Housekeeping. Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment. These tasks may be performed by members of the household, or by ...

6. Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures - Wikipedia

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   Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures is the common name, in the United States, given to the sanitation procedures in food production plants which are required by the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA and regulated by 9 CFR part 416 in conjunction with 21 CFR part 178.1010. It is considered one of the prerequisite programs of ...

7. Pulmonary Hygiene for Easier Breathing - Healthline

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   Takeaway. Pulmonary hygiene, previously known as pulmonary toilet, refers to exercises and procedures that help to clear your airways of mucus and other secretions. This ensures that your lungs ...

8. Medical Assistants: What do they do? - WebMD

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   Medical assistant administrative duties. These may include: Greeting patients. Answering phones and scheduling appointments. Filing and updating medical records. Coding and completing insurance ...

9. 7 Steps of Handwashing: How to Wash Your Hands Properly

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   Wet your hands with clean — preferably running — water. Apply enough soap to cover all surfaces of your hands and wrists. Lather and rub your hands together briskly and thoroughly. Make sure ...