HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION (NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION).

You are a registered nurse completing your Bachelor Degree in nursing (BSN). Identify an area that needs improvement at my current place of practice. Create a project proposal in which you use evidence-based research to support changes that you want to implement to achieve a goal. It would be nice if this focuses on patients in the ICU setting, but this is not mandatory. Some of the proposal that I have mentioned in class include:

-disposable stethoscopes for each patient,
-mandatory hand washing and isolation gowns for not only staff, but families and visitors,
-private rooms for patients in the ICU,
-educating family on infection control methods and encouraging family members to hold staff accountable when practices are not met,
-having someone on each shift observe staff compliance with infection control methods,
-better assessment of and optimization of patients nutritional status