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CSI Project
Denali Center (Fairbanks, Alaska)
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Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) and symptomatic urinary tract infection (SUTI)
Hospital UnitAll wings of long-term care facility
CSI Participants
Aminat Alarape-Raji, MPH, CIC
Teresa Hrubes, BSN, RN, COHN-S
Sandy Plummer, RN
Project Goals/Objectives
Project Outcomes
Project Overview
In 2018, the Denali Center long-term care nursing staff and Infection Control department completed a nursing survey to identify practices and knowledge deficits related to the number of overall UTIs and asymptomatic UTIs being inappropriately treated. Nursing staff also provided feedback that the current Infection Control Huddle Form and Order Set was not “user friendly” and made it difficult to interpret the requirements for meeting a UTI criteria.
For our CSI project, nursing staff partnered with Infection Control Prevention and Pharmacy to revise the UTI Infection Control Huddle Form and Standing Order Set. We educated all nursing staff, including CNAs, on the importance of peri-care and proper urinary catheter maintenance and introduced the revised huddle and order set.
After six months, we greatly exceeded our goals. Our next steps are to replicate the process for our other Infection Control Huddle Forms and Order Sets, e.g., pneumonia, gastrointestinal and skin infections. The overall success of the project has resulted in consistent and reliable nursing practice following the huddle and order protocol.
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