Progressing with change project

Hello,

This week with my preceptor has been interesting. I had the opportunity to monitor a walk through/inspection with my preceptor's boss. She is from the corporate office which is located in Florida. Basically, she wanted to see how the flow of the endo center was going and monitoring the profits as well as ensuring the guidelines of the policies and procedures is being followed. As I stated earlier, I am doing my project on infection control via surveillance screening of elderly patients specifically nursing home residents. This was also on the top of the list for corporate due to the department of health implemeting their policies and produres for the center recently. Amongst surveillance screening we are also ensuring that the staff are following infection control guidelines by ensuring the techs are cleaning the scopes properly and also replacing parts of the scopes that are now labled disposable. We are also monitoring the nurses that interact with patients to see if they are washing their hands and/or using the available hand sanitizer throughout the center.
I have read quite a few outpatient surgery journals and in almost all of them addresses the issue of infection control. I don't understand why infection control would be a big factor in healthcare facilities. As healthcare workers we know the outcomes of not following the guideline of infection control, would you not want healthcare workers to use sterile equipment,needles ect...it is sad that some healthcare workers makes most of us look bad by not following the rules. The endo centers have gotton so bad the government has given them funds to implement infection control procures to ensure patient safety.