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Tip of the week: To tackle UTIs, first know your practices
Infection Control Monitor, August 22, 2008
At Memorial Hospital in York, PA, staff members have adopted a urinary tract infection (UTI) bundle—training, standardized techniques, and a push to get Foley catheters out as quickly as possible—which has succeeded in reducing the number of infections at the facility.
To begin the initiative, Diana S. Scheide, RN, CIC, BA, an infection prevention and control practitioner at Memorial, convened a group of frontline nurses and attempted to establish what the current Foley catheter practices were and how nurses were being trained on this topic. “We sent out a survey, which actually was very well received by nursing staff. It asked what the common practices were,” Scheide says.
To learn more about the initiative, go to www.hcpro.com/content/216343.cfm. The cost is $10. Briefings on Infection Control subscribers received this story free with their subscriptions.
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