Future Outlook

The advancement of high technology has certainly benefited the health care industry in prevention and the reduction of infection. Greene (2013) claimed, that at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, infection control has taken a space-age step with the acquisition of two "robots" to eliminate pathogens in patient rooms, operating rooms and cardiac catheterization laboratories. The two robots use pulsed xenon ultraviolet light that is 25,000 times more powerful than the sun to destroy harmful microscopic invaders. The robots are used for disinfecting high-risk rooms" and the whole process takes about 15 minutes. Xenex officials told him the new infection-control technology can cut the rate of infection by up to 60 percent” (p.1). In the future, patients who are admitted to the hospital will be given a packet of patient care equipment that will be disposed following their discharge from the hospital (Brown, 2011, p 6). But most effectively, staff must take accountability for the prevention of infection by proper and frequent hand washing. Nothings beat infection more than hand washing.