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The Personal Commitment to Quality Patient Care and Excellence in Holistic Nursing:

Ironically, in some of the most modern medical institutions responsible for

patients in the U.S., aseptic protocols are violated routinely by medical professional,

including RNs, who allow lackadaisical loss of professional focus to jeopardize patient

health and welfare. Specifically, it is widely acknowledged that clinical evidence

suggests that the rate of morbidity and mortality caused by hospital acquired infections is

unacceptably high and result in tens of thousands of deaths annually in the U.S. from

hospital acquired infections unrelated to the initial hospitalization (Tong, 2007)

Anecdotal evidence, to a large extent, implicates hospital staff (including RNs as

well as physicians) in breakdowns in basic hygienic protocols and common sense

(Stanhope & Lancaster, 2004). In my view, this is unacceptable in modern medicine but

resolution requires individuals within the field to take on unofficial patient advocacy

responsibilities, in some respects, emulating the courage and concern for patient dignity

exemplified by Florence Nightingale......

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