Health Care Acquired Infection Paper

Health care-acquired infection (HCAI) is a foremost problem for patient safety and its surveillance. Prevention of HCAI has got to be the first main concern for settings and institutions dedicated to making health care safer. The impact of HCAI implies extended hospital stay, long-term disability, increased antimicrobials resistance of microorganisms, massive extra economic load, high expenses for patients and their families, and excess mortalities ( Boyce J., 2009).
In the USA, 10%, or 2 million, patients a year become infected (HCAI), with the annual cost ranging from $4.5 billion to $11 billion. The most frequent type of infection hospital-wide is urinary tract infection (36%), followed by surgical site infection (20%), and bloodstream infection and pneumonia (both 11%)(World Health Organization, 2009). According to European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control …show more content…
The physicians are accountable for utilisation of basic preventive procedures, and exert effective guidance in the encouragement of all infection prevention/clinical epidemiology (IPCE) policies and procedures. Nurses are at hand in all health care settings and can play a key role in modelling and promote evidenced- based infection control practices which will confirm the persistence of the quality of the care for patients (Smith J. M., 2009). Hence, the aim of this study was to detect the knowledge, attitude, and practice of physicians and nurses regarding infection control at Tanta University