to hospital acquired infections are flagged for the minimization of direct contact with healthcare providers and visitors who are not wearing protective gloves, gowns, etc. The third measure requires increased hand washing. The fourth measure involves a continued program promotion of environmental culture alteration in which all workers in the hospital are trained to become proactive with infection control and patient safety (Rosenberg, 2015). The individual hired at each V.A. hospital to run the program is an infection control nurse. Moreover, the program is well funded for whatever materials are necessary, including screening measures among other things, that the infection control nurse deems important for the success of the program (Rosenberg,
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Analyzing the problem from a variety of perspectives after reading the articles and delving into the research, it became apparent that in order to apply evidence based practice whichwould reduce hospital acquired infections, the environmental culture of hospitals would require a radical change. Thus, the problem of reducing hospital acquired infections does not simply come down to how well trained hospital personnel are with infection control, such as hand washing, etc., but rather how hospitals can be motivated to make infection control …show more content…
This quickly turned to outrage upon learning of the high rates of fatalities caused by hospital acquired infections, which are infections that are preventable. Moreover, upon learning of the high rates of hospital acquired infections in New York State, and most particularly in Brooklyn where I reside and where an antibiotic resistant strain of Klebsiella Pneumoniae accounted for more than 20% of the hospital acquired infections, I felt ashamed and concomitantly jolted into wanting to make a positive change (Consumer Reports, 2012; Rosenberg, 2015). I realized why so many people are fearful of hospitals and some even avoid getting necessary medical treatment lest they contract a hospital acquired infection. I wanted to understand why in the 21stcentury preventable infections were proliferating in hospitals at nearly epidemic proportions when pharmaceutical companies are developing cures and treatments regularly for diseases that were thought to be incurable only a decade ago. The guidelines for reducing hospital acquired infections were clearly spelled out throughout the literature, and were in fact originally championed by Florence Nightingale in the mid 1800’s (Smith, 2009). Nightingale demonstrated how poor sanitary conditions contributed to the fatalities of soldiers being treated in hospitals that
Analyzing the problem from a variety of perspectives after reading the articles and delving into the research, it became apparent that in order to apply evidence based practice whichwould reduce hospital acquired infections, the environmental culture of hospitals would require a radical change. Thus, the problem of reducing hospital acquired infections does not simply come down to how well trained hospital personnel are with infection control, such as hand washing, etc., but rather how hospitals can be motivated to make infection control …show more content…
This quickly turned to outrage upon learning of the high rates of fatalities caused by hospital acquired infections, which are infections that are preventable. Moreover, upon learning of the high rates of hospital acquired infections in New York State, and most particularly in Brooklyn where I reside and where an antibiotic resistant strain of Klebsiella Pneumoniae accounted for more than 20% of the hospital acquired infections, I felt ashamed and concomitantly jolted into wanting to make a positive change (Consumer Reports, 2012; Rosenberg, 2015). I realized why so many people are fearful of hospitals and some even avoid getting necessary medical treatment lest they contract a hospital acquired infection. I wanted to understand why in the 21stcentury preventable infections were proliferating in hospitals at nearly epidemic proportions when pharmaceutical companies are developing cures and treatments regularly for diseases that were thought to be incurable only a decade ago. The guidelines for reducing hospital acquired infections were clearly spelled out throughout the literature, and were in fact originally championed by Florence Nightingale in the mid 1800’s (Smith, 2009). Nightingale demonstrated how poor sanitary conditions contributed to the fatalities of soldiers being treated in hospitals that