Nosocomial infection is the term for infections contracted by patients during hospitalization.
HAIs today include illnesses acquired across the continuum of places where people receive medical care, as opposed to the nosocomial infections that were previously connected with admission to an acute-care hospital (e.g., long-term care, home care, ambulatory care).
They cause significant patient illnesses and deaths (morbidity and mortality), lengthen hospital stays, and call for additional diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, which add to the costs already associated with the patient's underlying disease.
These unexpected infections arise during the course of medical treatment.
Since certain HAIs are preventable, they are viewed as unfavorable outcomes, adverse events, and patient safety concerns. HAIs are often seen as an indicator of the standard of patient care.
Adverse medication events, nosocomial infections, and surgical complications are the most common categories of adverse events affecting hospitalized patients, according to patient safety research published in 1991.
Therefore, the correct answer is nosocomial infection.
The nurse should instruct the patient that she should ensure that she empty the colostomy appliance immediately it is one half full with feces. This will prevent the risk of having spill over from the appliance. A colostomy appliance is a medical device that is used to collect wastes from a surgically diverted colon.
