Universal precautions
Introduction
Universal precaution refer an approach used when controlling infections aimed and targeted at treating human blood and other body fluids, having assumption that these fluids were infectious of HIV or blood pathogens. This approach involves several objectives .They include activities that can be used to promote universal precautions .
Health care workers to understand that blood and body fluids are potential infectious materials(Baraff et al 2009 ). By been keen and respecting the precautions there is no likelihood of them to contact with the patients’ blood or other body fluids. This lowers the probability of disease infection through transmission. They are there by advised to use of protective equipments like gloves and masks which are essential when handling patients. Failure to use the protective equipments may result to transmission of infections from the patient to the doctor. Checking understaffing in health care units is very helpful, in case of shortage of health workers all patients will not be served as required so there is need to improve the number of the health workers. Proper hand hygiene is important, hand washing may reduce the cases of transfer of infections from patients to doctors(Pagana 2013). Host susceptibility is another factor. Different patients have different capability of conducting infections. Other factors include transmission based precautions which is useful in interrupting the transfer of pathogens. Standard precaution is also an a factor which ensures care of every patient without considering their presumed infectious status(Gurubacharya et al 2003). In conclusion when universal protection is put into practice there will be good health care environment and chances of transferring infectious diseases will be limited in hospitals.