Hospitals tend to become very full from time to time. When they fill up, it starts to trigger something: patients will get sick, giving them infections that they can't get rid of without the help of healthcare. Infections like these are called nosocomial infections or healthcare facility-acquired infections and are acquired while you are in a hospital or healthcare facility. As visitors come in and out of the facility, they tend to make the patient's illness worse. Visitors suffering from colds or other illnesses should definitely not visit family or friends while they are sick. If they visit while sick, they should wear a mask to cover their nose and face and wash their hands when entering and exiting the room they are visiting. Visitors who are not sick are still asked to wash their hands when entering and leaving the room, just to help prevent the spread of disease or infection. Family members and friends are not the only ones who can make patients' illnesses worse, nurses and doctors can make them worse too. They enter other patients' rooms many times during the day and can easily spread germs or other illnesses much faster than others. Doctors and nurses are told to always wash their hands when entering and leaving the room, especially when touching, observing or helping the patient. Nosocomial infections or healthcare facility infections are very common. In fact, one in ten patients will contract a nosocomial infection (Dave). You contracted these infections within the first forty-eight to seventy-two hours of hospitalization for something other than the infection, three days after being discharged, and up to thirty days after... half of the paper... ..net. February 9, 2014.Hicks, Lauri. “Get Smart About Antibiotics” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “August 2, 2012. Web. March 1, 2014. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. 1998-2014. Web.8 February 2014.Moore, Pete. Killer Germs: Rogue Diseases of the Twenty-First Century. London: Carlton, 2001.Print. February 10, 2014Pope-Parker, Tara. New York Times Company. Improve hand hygiene among doctors. 2014. Web, March 1, 2014.Rubin, Rita. United States today. “One in 20 patients will get a serious infection.” September 20, 2011.Web. February 4, 2014 Medscape. Treatment and management of wound infections. 1994-2014. Network. 23 Feb 2014.Stubblefield, Paradise. Health line. 2005 Web. January 4, 2014Willingham, Emily. Parnell, Trish. “Do hospitals make you sick?” Web blog. 7 December 2009. 4 February 2014