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Ask the expert: Developing a CAUTI prevention team

Nurse Leader Weekly, December 14, 2009

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This week, Mikel L. Gray, PhD, CUNP, CCCN, FAANP, FAAN, discusses what staff members play an important part in a CAUTI prevention team and how to go about developing one.

Q: What staff members should be included when developing a CAUTI prevention team?

A: Developing a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention program requires implementing organizational change. To achieve success, stakeholders must be identified and included as part of the CAUTI prevention team. This team needs to include direct involvement or consultation from some or all of the following on an initial and/or ongoing basis:

• Nurse leaders, advanced practice nurses, quality department nurses, infection prevention and control practitioners, organizational development leadership/clinical education specialists, and direct care nurses.
• Physicians from some or all of the following specialties:
  • Urologists
  • Infectious disease specialists
  • Hospitalists

To read other members that can be included on the CAUTI prevention team, click here.

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