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Infection issues are of a great concern to anyone practicing dentistry. Dental practitioners must be as careful as possible to avoid spread of diseases. Dental patients may not like practitioners who do not pay much attention to cleanliness. It is absolutely true that many patients would feel uncomfortable with services. Dental practitioners must take serious measures to avoid infections and spread of diseases through washing hands, wearing gloves, sterilizing clip bibs.

Hand washing is indeed a major concern in the oral health education. Most people do not wash their hands simply because they do not pay much attention to the consequences. Hand washing should be stressed because of its importance. Females are likely to wash their hands compared to males because females are more sensitive than men. Fear of getting sick should however be the main reason as to why people wash their hands but not the knowledge that they are walking around with gross things as per the author (Kelsch, 2013).

Hand hygiene is very crucial since people use their hands in touching various things containing germs and therefore hand washing is indeed a better way of controlling infection in the oral healthcare. What makes most people not to wash their hands is forgetfulness and assumption that hands have not touched any infectious or dirty surface. Much attention should be paid to hand washing by dentists to avoid spread of germs and oral infections (Kelsch, 2013).

Disinfection may not be the best way of eliminating bacteria because not all bacteria are eliminated. There are anaerobic bacteria that normally remain even after disinfection. Most of the bib clips contain oral bacteria, anaerobic bacteria isolate from skin and anaerobic bacteria from oral cavity and upper respiratory thus causing risk of cross contamination (Kelsch, 2013). Disposable bib holders and sterilization of clips may provide better solution to these risks. Bib clips made of rubbers retain more bacteria compared to metal clips. There are other ways in which bibs may be infected by bacteria. Some of the ways include when the patients touch them, when dental practitioners touch them with gloves or when patient’s saliva goes into them. Author’s advice to use disposable bib holders, bibs without chains and less embossing as well as avoidance of taking the bibs to places such as eating places are some of the ways of reducing cross contamination (Kelsch, 2013).

Wipes are very important to dentists as a way of reducing bacterial infections. There are many infections associated with surfaces and can live for a very long time. Choosing appropriate disinfectant is very essential as far as inactivating microorganisms is concerned. Chemical formulations are indeed vital depending on the intended function of the germicidal wipe. However, effectiveness of a particular disinfectant largely depends on the instructions that are put on the labels (Kelsch, 2013). It is true according to the author that alcohol-quaternary ammonium germicidal wipe has numerous benefits compared to other wipes. Nevertheless the ability and effectiveness of this wipe is dependent on the instructions prescribed by the manufacturers. They can largely minimize the risk of spreading diseases in dental environment.

References

Kelsch, Noel. (2013). That’s gross. RDH Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/print/volume-29/issue-7/columns/infection-control/that146s-gross.html

Kelsch, Noel. (2013). Don’t clip that crud on me. RDH Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/print/volume-30/issue-1/columns/infection-control/don39t-clip-that-crud-on-me.html

Kelsch, Noel. (2013). It’s not a baby wipe. RDH Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/print/volume-30/issue-5/columns/it-s-not-a-baby-wipe.html

Kelsch, Noel. (2013). A Dental Patient’s Perspective about Infection Control. RDH Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/print/volume-32/issue-9/columns/a-patients-perspective.html

Health sciences and medicine

1. Analysis of Power and Politics within Healthcare Organizations

Review Chapter 8 of your course text, including the section on Henry Mintzberg’s political games which begins on page 143. The chapter’s author has provided a depiction of each political game element as it pertains to health professionals in a health care organization. Identify a professional organization in which you have worked or volunteered (it does not have to be related to health) and describe its members. Evaluate each member as you determine their basis of power within the organization. Identify any political games that you were aware of by members of the staff or any ancillary employees/volunteers. Additionally, identify any political games that you were aware of that were played by the managers, administration, and/or the Board of Directors. If you did not witness or were not aware of any political games at your organization, describe a potential scenario of what a situation could look like for your selected workplace. Give two examples, one for the staff and one for someone in leadership. What were the motivations (or potential motivations) of why the games may have been pursued? Were there (or could there be) any negative impacts on an organization by the occurrence of these games? Give examples of the negative impacts.

2. Managing Conflict and Interpersonal Relationships

Review the case study presented in the course text at the top of page 151. What organizational strategy would you recommend the CEO utilize to get the organization back on track considering conflict management and interpersonal relationships?

1. Read from the text, Health Organizations: Theory, Behavior, and Development:

o Chapter 7: Group Dynamics
? This chapter provides concepts such as teams and group processes within the health care organization are evaluated.
o Chapter 8: Power and Politics
? This chapter provides concepts such as sources of power and politics within the health care organization are evaluated.
o Chapter 9: Conflict and Interpersonal Relations
? This chapter provides concepts conflict management and interpersonal relationships are evaluated.
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3. Anderson, M. (2009). The role of group personality composition in the emergence of task and relationship conflict within groups. Journal of Management and Organization, 15(1), 82. Retrieved from the ProQuest database.
4. Sword, L.D. (2008). A complexity science view of conflict. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 10(4), 10. Retrieved from the ProQuest database

2. make sure that you allow the discussion to be cited as to how much you are directly quoting. and how much is your original discussion. Try to make it more original as to Your OWN WORDS and views as possible.Please review the required resources from chapters 7,8,9 to complete assignment.