Tag Archives: CLABSI
“Infection Prevention Basics”
When visiting hospitals and other health care settings, one can become much more vulnerable to catching infections. Unfortunately, patients are susceptible to this as well, and about 75,000 in hospitals die each year as a result of these infections. These infections
Report Shows National HAI Prevention “Progress in Some Areas While Improvements are Needed in Others”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published the 2016 Healthcare-Associated Infection Progress Report (HAI Progress Report). This is a report that presents progress on the prevention of key healthcare-associated infections with an effort to highlight progress and also uncover
Hospitals set to lose $272 million to HAC penalties in FY2016
First introduced in FY2015, the hospital-acquired condition (HAC) reduction program was created to incentivize short-term acute care hospitals to reduce the amount of HACs by penalizing those that fail to do so. HACs are reasonably preventable conditions that patients did
Preventing complications by proper securement
Securing VAD’s (vascular access devices) of all types is key to preventing complications. When we don’t have good securement catheters move at the insertion site. We use words like migration, piston, dislodgment to describe these events. These events lead to
Health care workers’ knowledge and practices regarding the prevention of central venous catheter-related infection
Copied from the AJIC January, 1st, 2015 Sameer A. Alkubati, PhD, RN , Nadia T. Ahmed, PhD, RN , Osama N.E. Mohamed, PhD , Akram M. Fayed, PhD , Hayam I. Asfour, PhD, RN Published Online: November 20, 2014 Background Central
INS Webinar
Enhancing Accountable Care Through Improved CLABSI Outcomes, a webinar presented by the Infusion Nurses Society, is being offered April 29, 2015 from 12-1 p.m. The free webinar will focus on the Affordable Care Act and the way it’s changing the
Reducing HAI’s by focusing on caregivers skin
A huge improvement has been found in the rate of CLABSI and SSI as well as some progress on hospital onset MRSA bacteremia and C. difficle infections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a study from 2011
Implementation of Ethanol Lock Therapy in Peds Patient Reduces Risk of CLABSI
Information copied from: The Journal of the Association for Vascular Access Volume 19, #4. Winter 2014. Stephanie Pitts, MSN, RN, CPN, VA-BC Dale Bergamo, MD Carlos Cartaya, MD St Joseph’s Children’t Hospital, Tampa, FL Beth Gore,
CLABSI Guidance Implementation Strategies
Central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) pose a immediate danger to vulnerable patents, infection prevention guidance is imperative for assisting acute care hospitals in prioritizing prevention efforts. Approximately 41,000 cases of CLABSI occur in U.S. hospitals annually, increasing length of stay
Healthcare Associated Infection Data for WI
Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its Healthcare Association Infection (HAI) report showing progress in reduction of HAI’s, however there is still room for vast improvement. http://www.cdc.gov/hai/pdfs/stateplans/factsheets/wi.pdf The 2012 occurrence of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)
