Tag Archives: CLABSI Prevention
Physician and Nurse Champions Build Vascular Access Programs
Champions for the Cause: Using the TAP Strategy to Identify Gaps in Preventing HAIs We have been teaching the importance of building vascular access teams and programs for many years. It is crucial to have a multidisciplinary team that works collaboratively
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
CLABSI’s Who’s accountable?
I was just reviewing the numbers related to CLABSI rates and we still have a lot of work to do! Studies still show that the majority of central lines become infected after day 5 of insertion. Vascular Access Programs and
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
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,
Affordable Care Act Rewards Hospitals for Reducing Readmissions
Acute care facilities have significantly reduced the number of CLABSIs since the CMS non-payment rules went into effect in 2008. The CDC has reported that CLABSIs for hospitalized patients was 41% lower than expected in 2011. With this reduction however the number
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
