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Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Volume 8

March 26-27, 2018 | Orlando, USA

World Summit on

Healthcare & Hospital Management

International Conference & Exhibition on

Biologics and Biosimilars

Priscilla Ream

Bronson Commons, USA

Hospital housekeepers - Partners to prevent and control healthcare

associated infections

ospital Housekeepers (HH) are the responsible for cleaning,

disinfecting, and are the final personnel to process medical

waste in healthcare environments - practices proven to be

essential toprevent and control healthcareassociated infections

(HAIs).

Studies have shown that HH have poor education/

training, and other factors that increase their risk of being

exposed to workplace hazards such as biological risk. Ineffective

waste management, along with increasing the risk for HH

injuries, can also increase the risk for accidents with biological

material among healthcare workers, and people without

presumed risk. HH should be treated as the important partners

they are to prevent and control HAIs and consequently improve

patient safety and the quality of healthcare services provided to

clients. That being said, they should have appropriate training,

access to information to prevent injuries, access to vaccines

like HBV prior to exposure, appropriate PPE, and in the case

of a work-related exposure incident, the same treatment as a

healthcare worker would receive. The healthcare team should

also receive continuing education about waste management to

avoid improper waste segregation.

Speaker Biography

Priscilla Ream is a Brazilian nurse and received her BSN in 2011, her MSN in 2014 by

Federal University of Goias, Brazil. She has experience in Practical Nursing, Nursing

Research, Infection Control, and Epidemiology – mostly acquired as a member of the

Nursing Faculty Research Group at the Federal University of Goias: Center for Studies

and Research in Nursing Infection Prevention and Control Related to Health Care

(NEPIH) between 2009-2015. During undergraduate, she participated in an internship

in the Infection Control Commission in the Faro Hospital, Algarve, Portugal. To expand

her international experience as a nurse, in 2016 she received her RN license in the USA,

and currently works as RN in the State of Michigan. She has publications in the area of

accidents with biological material and wound treatment, and serves as a reviewer for

Journals while enhancing her international nursing career.