Microbiology importance in nursing

Date:4/5/2021 www. qadricohs.edu.pk FB Page: Qadri College of Health Sciences, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. 1
Faculty: Aftab H. Abbasi
RN, DCHN, BSN, MA, LL.B
Lecturer Nursing
Qadri College of Health
Sciences Karachi
QADRI COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES, KARACHI
IMPORTANCE OF MICROBIOLOGY IN NURSING PRACTICE

• Microbiology is a
subject which deals
with microbes and
their related concepts.
• Nurses are involved in
controlling infection in
hospital, so nurses
must know about
microbiology.
• To know about harmful
and harmless
microorganisms to
human being.

• Why microbiology is
needed in nursing?
To take care of patient
and to protect oneself
from
pathogenic microorg
anisms.

• Nurses utilize concepts
of microbiology while
giving patient care or
doing procedures.
• To prevent spread of
infection:
Nurses should have
knowledge about the
mode of spread of
infection.

• Nurses apply the microbiology knowledge in
health care for drug production, diagnosis and
sterilization methods and cleanliness.
• Nurses use hot water or anti-septic as a measure
to sterilize the surgical knives, needles, scissors
and other metals instruments.
• Microbiology also gives knowledge to nurses on
how to handle a patient and his samples infected
with communicable diseases to free from
microbes.

• It also helps detect diseases like
Tuberculosis by simple skin test namely the
Mantoux test.
• Also diagnostic tests like Elisa,
electrophoreis and radioimmuno assay also
use principles of microbiology for
identification of disease.

Knowledge of microbiology helps
a nurse in every field of health care.
Nurses should have known about the mode
of spread of infection.
This knowledge would help a nurse to look
for specific control of the spread of
infection.
Nurses also play an important role in
immunization to control threats of various
diseases.

• Nurses must have sufficient education and
training in microbiology to perform many
roles within clinical nursing practice (e.g.,
administering antibiotics, collecting
specimens, preparing specimens for
transport and delivery, educating patients
and families, communicating results to the
healthcare team, and developing care plans
based on results of microbiology studies
and patient immunological status).

Establishment of clinical diagnosis.
Isolation of causative agent.
Determination of antibiotic susceptibility.
Monitoring therapy.
Prevention of infectious disease by
vaccine.
Provides knowledge about sterilization
and disinfection.
Confirmation of bacteriological cure.

The knowledge of microbiology in nursing is
very important to control and prevent infection.
Nurses and other health professionals in
healthcare can learn, how infections spread
and how to cure or surgery of an open wound
without infecting it.
The knowledge of microbiology teaches them to
keep the instruments aseptic.
Teaches them the nature of the organism and
the factors affecting its growth, disease
transmission.

Microbiology has proved to be one of the
most important disciplines in biology,
making it possible to identify how some of
these organisms cause diseases,
discover cures for such diseases and
even use some microbes for industrial
purposes etc.
Nurses know every aspect of infectious
disease in humans, from diagnosis and
treatment to prevention and protection.

The patients who nurses care for are often vulnerable and
at increased risk of infectious disease.
Nurses and other healthcare workers may carry harmful
bacteria on their hands.
Therefore, extra care must be taken to avoid the transfer
of infectious agents from nurse to patient.
Infections that are acquired while a patient is hospitalized
are common unfortunately.
They are sometimes difficult to treat and can be fatal. In
addition, hospital-acquired infections result in
lengthened hospital stays that increase the economic
burden.
An appreciation and understanding of microbiology and
infection control is vital to nursing practice.

Microbiology importance in nursing

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