Antimicrobial resistance needs to be combated at primary levels of prevention by nurses

Oerther, Sarah; Oerther, Daniel B.

doi:10.1002/nop2.445

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“…Science- in -diplomacy, where individuals with formal education in science serve as professional diplomats (i.e. the adoption of the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week campaign by the UN World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2015 designating 18 to 24 November annually as a time to increase the public’s understanding of antimicrobial resistance); 9 , 10…”

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Advancing global public health using science-for-diplomacy

Oerther

2021

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Threats to public health often ignore lines of political jurisdiction drawn on maps. To advance global public health, practitioners must be familiar with diverse cultures, and practitioners benefit from professional networks that transcend borders. The exchange of citizens as cultural ambassadors is a common practice that dates back nearly 75 years to the Fulbright Scholarship Programme operated by the US government. As the UK has withdrawn from ERASMUS+ (EuRopean community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students Plus) and launches the Turing scheme, the public health community must look for ways to participate in international exchange to enhance cultural awareness and promote professional connections to tackle the evergrowing list of global public health threats, such as antimicrobial resistance, universal access to healthcare and global pandemics. The purpose of this article is to compare existing exchange programmes and to describe how public health practitioners should use science-fordiplomacy (emphasis added) to advance global public health practice and policy.

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Advancing global public health using science-for-diplomacy

Oerther

2021

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“…However, bacteria developed resistance mechanisms against many antibiotics and in 2019, World Health Organization considered antimicrobial resistance as one of the top ten human global health threats (Mancuso et al 2021). This is a serious concern, which can result in up to a 25% mortality rate among patients with severe infections (Oerther and Oerther 2020;Boucher 2020). In general, nanotechnology is a tool that uses science at the nanoscale level to manipulate materials.…”

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Antibacterial Efficacy of Zinc oxide nanoparticles against Serratia marcescens (ATCC 43862) and Enterococcus faecalis (ATCC 29121)

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Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are a novel and alternative biomaterial for active biomedical applications among all metal and metallic oxide nanoparticles due to less toxicity and biocompatibility with human cells. In this study, we studied the growth curve of Serratia marcescens and Enterococcus faecalis to identify the mid-log phase of the bacterial growth to perform the exposure with ZnO NPs for investigating the antibacterial efficacy. The INT assay was used to determine the anti-bactericidal efficiency of ZnO NPs against S. marcescens and E. faecalis. The results showed that both the test bacteria attained the mid-log phase at the 5th hour. The determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) demonstrated a higher efficacy of ZnO NPs on the Gram-positive bacterium E. faecalis compared to the Gram-negative bacterium S. marcescens. The present study reports a higher susceptibility of Gram-positive bacterium over Gram-negative bacterium to the treatment of ZnO NPs.

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“…For the past century, an escalating "bio-warfare" has emerged with scientists developing and pharmaceutical companies producing and marketing new antibiotics (i.e., ways to kill) while bacteria responded by developing new resistance (i.e., ways to escape). Ultimately, the future looks bleak for human health as bacteria increasingly fail to respond to treatments due to antibiotic resistance; healthcare professionals have issued urgent warnings that the benefits of antibiotics enjoyed for nearly a century may be ending with a resurgence in deaths from untreatable bacterial infections [1,2,3].…”

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Engagement in Practice: Promoting Environmental Health Literacy to Raise Awareness of Antibiotic Resistance

Oerther

2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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The process of how to engage with communities (i.e., community engagement) is an important skill for engineers to acquire, and the skill is well suited to experiential learning (i.e., learning through doing). To educate engineers to perform community engagement, a module was developed and incorporated as part of three different engineering courses, namely: 1) science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) diplomacy (dual-level graduate and undergraduate, elective); 2) public health engineering (dual-level graduate and undergraduate, elective); and 3) biological principles of environmental engineering (graduate only, required course). These courses were offered at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and through Missouri Online distance education. The primary audience included students of environmental engineering as well as students of civil engineering and architectural engineering and students of nursing. The module included an overview of community engagement, gathering community information, co-identification of a problem and a solution, and testing the solution.While many forms of community engagement often aim to unearth problems and codesign solutions in a partnership between the researcher/scholar and the community/stakeholders, in this module the process of community engagement was preseeded with the problem that a lack of environmental health literacy among the general public is a significant contributor to the spread of antibiotic resistance (i.e., resistance to antibiotics spreads among communities where individuals lack awareness, scientific understanding, and access to ways to prevent the spread of resistant bacteria). The preseeded problem was offered by the United States Department of State as part of a Diplomacy Lab exercise. Thus, students engaged with representatives of the State Department in place of direct engagement with community members. As a pre-seeded solution to this problem, the State Department requested that students develop infographics. Subsequently, as part of additional community engagement, students used these infographics to educate individual community members about antibiotic resistance. Thus, by the strictest definition of "community engagement", this module represents a variation from the true sense of "best practice". None the less, over a period of eight years, a total of 130 students have participated in a variation of community engagement by completing this module incorporated into three different courses, which were offered a total of 17 different times.Lessons learned include: 1) although hesitant at first, many engineering students eventually recognized the benefit of community engagement to promote environmental health literacy; 2) developing infographics was a challenge for engineering students (i.e., specifically the creation of "graphics" was a challenge); and 3) the results of community assessment with student-designed materials were similar to the results reported in the general scientific literature suggesting that students of engineerin...

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Antimicrobial resistance needs to be combated at primary levels of prevention by nurses

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Advancing global public health using science-for-diplomacy

Advancing global public health using science-for-diplomacy

Antibacterial Efficacy of Zinc oxide nanoparticles against Serratia marcescens (ATCC 43862) and Enterococcus faecalis (ATCC 29121)

Engagement in Practice: Promoting Environmental Health Literacy to Raise Awareness of Antibiotic Resistance

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