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Tip of the week: Make rounds through the ICU

Infection Control Monitor, May 11, 2007

It should be a goal of every infection control professional (ICP) to round in every ICU at least once per week. "The more you're out there the more you'll see," says Libby F. Chinnes, RN, BSN, CIC, a consultant for IC Solutions, LLC, in Mount Pleasant, SC.

Although ICPs should also focus on other departments, the ICU is a must-see destination because it's a potential hotbed of infectious activity, she says. Only 5% of hospital beds in the country are ICU beds, says Chinnes, but healthcare-associated infections are five to 10 times greater amongst the critically ill ICU population than the general hospital population.

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