Problem Statement

Every day, 1 in about every 20 hospitalized patients has an infection caused by receiving medical care. This is often referred to as a H.A.I.  (Hospital Acquired Infection) or a Nosocomial infection. Nosocomial infections are defined as infections occurring within 48 hours of hospital admission, 3 days of discharge or 30 days of an operation . This can be perceived as very ironic because the hospital is a health care facility that is meant to be safe and treat patients of infections, diseases, and etc., not a place to obtain one while being treated or being discharged. Nevertheless, through the proper awareness tactics, Continuing Education Units (CEUs), Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC), and etc. this epidemic can be severely minimized although never fully destroyed.

Nosocomial Infections are said to come in a variety of sites from surgical, urinary, respiratory, vascular catheter, septicemia, microorganisms and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)). Urinary infection sites can be classified as positive urine culture (1 or 2 species) with at least 10 bacteria/ml with or without clinical symptoms. They are said to be the most common infection site with 80% of them being associated with an indwelling bladder catheter. Although urinary infections often causes less rate of illnesses than the other nosocomial infections, it does lead to bacteria and death. The gram positive bacteria from the gut flora is usually responsible for either normal Escherichia Coli or acquired in hospital Multiresistant Klebsiella.

 Nosocomial Infections is an epidemic that inadvertently affects most of the population. Patients are directly infected because of the hospital environment while the rest of the population are infected through direct contact with the patients depending on the infection. This epidemic is a topic that should not be overlooked at all because of the fact that millions of people go to the hospital every day. As a result the statistical data of deaths and infections has a chance of increasing every day. This epidemic can be severely minimized although never fully destroyed. But this is an epidemic that affects everybody so in order to help achieve this mission of bringing it to a minimized demeanor, everybody from the hospitals, staff, patients, states, to even the government will have to be involved working as a team