Wound Care Quality Improvement Collaborative
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Surgical Site Infection Prevention - Hopkins Medicine
www.hopkinsmedicine.orgSurgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) • Created in 2003 • Extension of Surgical Infection Prevention Collaborative • In addition to the 3 antimicrobial prophylaxis measures, SCIP adds 3 more performance quality measures: – Proper hair removal (no razors) – Glucose control <200 mg/dL for 2 days after cardiac surgery
Surgical Skin Preparation Quality Improvement Guide
www.onetogether.org.ukThe partnership is a quality improvement collaborative which aims to promote and support the adoption of best practice to prevent SSI throughout the patient’s surgical journey. We seek to provide resources that make the evidence for practice to prevent SSI accessible to those involved in caring for surgical patients.
Infection Control in Home Care - Centers for Disease ...
wwwnc.cdc.govHome-care professionals need the assistance, support, and practical guidance of infection control professionals. Because of substantial financial challenges in home care, one nurse is often responsible for quality improvement, safety, risk management, and infection control. These professionals can apply and manage surveillance systems but will need
JOB DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE: Health Care Assistant (HCA) …
hgs.uhb.nhs.ukBe alert to any possible improvement to service and make suggestions as appropriate 5. Quality Following direction and delegation from a registered nurse undertake aspects of care for a patient / group of patients Practise in accordance with agreed …
Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical ...
www.andeal.orgcritically ill individuals, older adults, pediatric individuals, individuals in palliative care and individuals in the operating room setting. The guideline includes sections to assist in implementing the guideline within organizations, including quality improvement strategies, quality indicators, health professional education
Integrated Urgent Care Service Specification
www.england.nhs.ukof the urgent care system. Earlier this year, NHS England and NHS Improvement published the Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View which highlighted the importance of delivering a functionally integrated urgent care service to help address the fragmented nature of out-of-hospital services.
A Systematic Approach from the Joint Commission Center for ...
www.hpoe.orgDatabase of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) recommendations. For the purposes of this collaborative, a fall was defined as a sudden, unintentional descent, with or without injury to the patient, which resulted in the patient coming to rest on the floor, on or against some other surface, another person or on an object.10 Falls considered to be
QBL Quantitative Blood Loss
www.hasc.orgcare: i.e. wound dressing/cleaning patient etc –Record QBL/suctioned blood before irrigation used –Record QBL/bloody sponges while incision being closed (fascia) California Partnership for …
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 103
www.cdc.govsneezing, or by wound drainage. Microbes can “go mobile” and move from place to place –they may be transmitted by health care worker’s hands, contaminated environmental surfaces or equipment that is shared among the patients. Once a harmful microbe reaches that person it only takes a portal of entry, a way in, to infect somebody else.
The Joint Commission Preventing unintended retained ...
www.jointcommission.orgSep 25, 2013 · unsafe conditions; and systematic quality improvement approaches need to be implemented that reliably measure the magnitude of the problem (e.g., days between procedures with an URFO), identify the contributing factors and root causes, and develop solutions for the most important causes.10,11. Studies show that the risk of URFOs is significantly