Hospital Acquired Infection: A Case Study

The long-time healthcare problem I want to pay attention to is hospital acquired infections secondary to poor hand hygiene. Hospital acquired infections are the ones that occurred 48 hours after admission to the hospital, up to 3 days after discharge, up to 30 days after the operation, and in healthcare facility when a patient was admitted for reasons other than infection. In the United States, it has been estimated that 9.2 out of every 100 patients develop a hospital-acquired infection (Hospital-Acquired (Nosocomial) Infections, 2016). Few examples of those infections are urinary tract infections, surgical site infections, pneumonia, and bloodstream infection. An estimated 40 percent of the hospital-acquired infections are caused by poor