This document discusses a nursing lecture that covers environmental safety, infection, and standard precautions. It specifically addresses hand hygiene, gloves, sterile gloving, and nursing skills laboratory guidelines. The lecture aims to promote a safe healthcare environment and control infection through proper hand hygiene and use of protective equipment. Hospitals can be dangerous places due to risks like falls, equipment failures, and procedure-related accidents that sometimes lead to adverse events.
8. Environmental Safety Safety within our environment acknowledges risk and hazards We live in a world full of microorganisms Infection is a hazard we cannot escape, but can seek to control
9. Hospitals “ To err is human. To moo, bovine.” Lame Joke Christmas Bon-Bon 25 December 2008