Answer: I am planning to do my Executive Summary assignment on C. diff (clostridium difficile) infections, and the need to use a diluted chlorine bleach solution to disinfect and prevent passing on this dangerous infection to other patients and staff.  I would like to see the hospital begin placing chlorine wipes at least in every unit.  I don’t think I could ever get them to go for placing them in every room, or even if that would be practical in the first place.  I don’t know the shelf life of the wipes in a dispenser, and if they’d be wasted from lack of use (they might dry up.)

In the United States every year, there are nearly half a million people who fall ill from Clostridium difficile infection. In recent years these infections are becoming more severe and frequent and very difficult to treat.  All rooms should be terminally cleaned when a patient is moved out of the room in preparation for the next patient. The employment of an all-surface terminal bleach cleansing program in the rooms of patients with Clostridium difficile infection has made a sustained, significant impact on reducing the rate of Clostridium difficile infection in the health care system.

Hand sanitizers are available in almost every patient room these days.  Having the convenience of the dispensers has reduced infections and contamination.  I feel the same can be done for C. diff infections.