Not a question, just a polemic observation:
Hospital contamination control is usually quite poor.
They really need to do some training that gives direct feedback on good/bad practices.
One thing that I often observe is a worker going directly from patient contact to using a computer/clipboard/etc – no glove removal or hand cleaning – that item now becomes a potential source of infection for everybody after.
The workers need to have some sort of periodic training with a “patient” that has some sort of fluorescing material on them – let the worker take care of the “patient” and then take a look at the room under UV light when they are done. I think that would be more effective than reminders to wash hands or wear gloves. One problem with the “wear gloves” approach is that workers often don’t change the gloves often enough – they start thinking of the gloves as something to protect themselves rather than something to prevent the spread of contamination.
