What is importance or role of microbiology in medicine?

Answer 1

Basic knowledge of microbiology and parasitology are required in the field of nursing due to the following reasons:

• One must have an idea of how infections spread
• Which surfaces are most susceptible to infectious agents
• How do you keep instruments aseptic and contaminant-free
• Recognize the symptoms of an infection
• How to carefully take care of an open wound without infecting it
• Recognize the type of infection as soon as it occurs

Answer 2

1,make an idea about spreading of infection

2,know about the surfaces which are susceptable to infectious agent

3,keep instruments asceptic

4,recoganise symptoms of an infection

5,to take kare of an open wound

6,recoganise the type of infection at its early stage

JIJO MATHEW,KOCHU CHIRA

NAVODAYA COLLEGE OF NURSING

RAICHUR,KARNATAKA

Answer 3

There are numerous reasons why nurses must study microbiology and parasitology. To begin with, what do nurses do? Most people will immediately and correctly answer; "They care for ill and/or disabled people." To effectively care for ill people, nurses must know how to effectively deal with the micro-organism (bacteria, fungi, virus, etc) which is the underlying cause of the condition the patient(s) of the nurse are suffering from. Although it is the doctors who need the most knowledge in this area, nurses still must possess at least a basic working knowledge of the most common microorganisms in order to protect themselves, other patients, staff or visitors to the hospital or clinic from becoming contaminated by whichever micro-organism is present in the patients who are being treated.

In addition to preventing the spread of illnesses caused by microorganisms, nurses also must know enough about them to catch the occasional error that a doctor may make in treating a patient and bring the error to his or her attention. For example; Patient X is suffering from disease Z, which is caused by bacteria Y, which is treatable by antibiotic A, but not antibiotic B. Now let's say Doctor Doe prescribes antibiotic B, after briefly speaking to Patient X and glancing at his chart, on hour 47 of a straight 48 hour duty shift. It is doctors who order or prescribe medications, but nurses who prepare and administer them. This division of labor is good, since it creates a "double check" system. Now when the nurse reads the chart and assesses the patient, she or he will see that antibiotic B has been ordered for a disease that it does not effectively treat and will call Doctor Doe to inquire why he prescribed this unusual choice of medication, at which time Doctor Doe will normally thank the nurse for catching the inadvertent oversight and change the order to the correct antibiotic A, which will cause a positive outcome of the case.

Now what if the nurse never received any training that enabled her or him to recognize that very possible oversight that some over-worked, exhausted doctor made? At the very least the healing process would be delayed, or at worst, the patient may have died.

Answer 4

Studying microbiology lets you know what type of pathogen might be affecting the host or how the cells of the host are damaged through mutation or infection.

Answer 5

Microbiology plays an important role for medicine mostly in medical devices. Microbiology helps the medical industry to discover more about vaccines and invent more devices.

Answer 6

Importance of parasitology in nursing?

Answer 7

importance of microbiology in nursing