The Environmental Caring Character through Activities to Maintain School Cleanliness

the effect of consciousness-raising activities on learning grammatical structures by iranian guidance school efl learners

abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...

Caring for Children Amidst Chaos: Guidelines to Maintain Health

Monitoring environmental cleanliness on two surgical wards.

Ten hand-touch sites were screened weekly on two surgical wards over two consecutive six-month periods. The results were analysed using hygiene standards, which specify (i) an aerobic colony count (ACC) > 2.5 cfu/cm(2), and (ii) presence of coagulase-positive staphylococci, as hygiene failures. Sites most often failing the standards were beds and hoist (64%: 33 of 52 weeks), bedside lockers (62...

The impact of environmental cleanliness on infection rates.

Much has been said in recent years about the lack of environmental cleanliness in hospitals. The House of Lords Select Committee (1998) talked about falling standards in hospital cleaning and, more recently, the government acknowledged in The NHS Plan (Department of Health, 2000) that hospitals were unacceptably dirty. Such comments may affect people's perceptions of hospitals and, rather than ...

Environmental hygiene in the operating room: cleanliness, godliness, and reality.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely (P.J. O’Rourke). “Environment” is defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary as “the surroundings or conditions in which a person lives or operates,” whereas hygiene is defined as “conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness.” Cleanliness is the state of being free...