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2. Unlicensed assistive personnel - Wikipedia

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   Most UAPs, including nursing assistants, are not certified to change sterile dressings, distribute medications, insert or remove any tubing (such as nasogastric tubes), or conduct tube feedings. Such tasks should be therefore left to the overseeing nurse or clinical licensed professional. [ 4 ]

3. Dressing (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Applying a dressing is a first aid skill, although many people undertake the practice with no training – especially on minor wounds. Modern dressings will almost all come in a prepackaged sterile wrapping, date coded to ensure sterility. Sterility is necessary to prevent infection from pathogens resident within the dressing.

4. Incision and drainage - Wikipedia

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   The dressing should be changed and the wound irrigated with normal saline at least twice each day. [4] In addition, it is recommended to administer an antibiotic active against staphylococci and streptococci, preferably vancomycin when there is a risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . [ 4 ]

5. Healthcare technician - Wikipedia

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   Healthcare technicians or HCT are also known as Patient Care Technician (PCT) or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). HCTs' objectives are to provide basic nursing care, use communication skills to assist patients in adapting to common health problems, provide continuity of care, demonstrate acceptance of responsibility for learning purposes, and ...

6. Surgical technologist - Wikipedia

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   Surgical technologist demonstrating proper precautionary raised idle hand position. A surgical technologist, also called a scrub, scrub tech, surgical technician, or operating department practitioner or operating room technician, is an allied health professional working as a part of the team delivering surgical care.

7. Wound bed preparation - Wikipedia

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   Since the year 2000, the wound bed preparation concept has continued to improve. For example, the TIME acronym (Tissue management, Inflammation and infection control, Moisture balance, Epithelial (edge) advancement) has supported the transition of basic science to the bedside in order to exploit appropriate wound healing interventions [6] and has not deviated from the important tenets of ...

8. Surgeon's assistant - Wikipedia

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   They may, in accordance with state laws, help surgeons to make incisions and close surgical sites, manipulate or remove tissues, implant surgical devices or drains, suction the surgical site, place catheters, clamp or cauterize vessels or tissue, and apply dressings. [10] [11] [5] [7]

9. Surgical nursing - Wikipedia

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   Registered nursing received their training over a longer period of time, as they receive a university degree. To become a registered nurse you must complete a bachelor's degree of nursing which takes up to 3 years. Enrolled Nurses complete a Diploma of Nursing which is a full-time course over 12 –16 months at Technical and Further Education ...