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Tip of the week: Make changes in response to risk assessments

Infection Control Monitor, December 14, 2007

Once you have done an IC risk assessment at your facility and you've developed your conclusions, it's time to make changes, and that may mean adding to your existing program. For example, the state of North Carolina mandates hysterectomy surveillance, an area that Greenville (SC) Hospital System University Medical Center had not been monitoring in the past. As a result, the facility had to design a surveillance process and a program in response to the new law, says Connie Steed, RN, BSN, CIC, director of IC.

If this is the case at your facility, always go to the literature first to see what other facilities are already doing in this area, she says. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

For more on how to conduct an effective risk assessment, go to www.hcpro.com/content/78417.cfm. The cost is $10. Briefings on Infection Control subscribers received this story with their subscriptions.

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