
Strategies for Tackling CAUTI: It’s everyone’s problem
Tackling CAUTI requires a multidisciplinary and multimodal approach. This webinar will review practical strategies and overcoming implementation challenges for building a multipronged approach to CAUTI prevention including engagement of clinical staff, nurse driven foley removal protocols, automated order sets, reflex urine testing and re-defining the foley catheter as a major procedure.
Target Audience
Infection preventionists, Healthcare Epidemiologists, Infectious diseases physicians
Learning Objectives
- Development and implementation of algorithms and order sets which utilize evidence-based definitions of UTI symptoms to decrease over-diagnosis of CAUTI
- Outline strategies for engaging nurses to utilize a nurse-driven foley catheter removal protocol, engaging physicians for daily assessment of foley catheter necessity, exploring alternative strategies other than foley and overcoming barriers to implementation.
- Improve diagnostic stewardship with implementation of reflex urine culture algorithms. Describe successes and pitfalls of reflex urine culture algorithms as a strategy to reduce the number of inappropriate urine cultures.
- Drive culture change within an organization to decrease the perception of the foley catheter as a benign intervention and increase the understanding of it as a procedure which carries risk, including training, and competency for insertion and maintenance of catheters.
SPEAKERS:
Sarah Krein, PhD, RN
Research Professor
VA Ann Arbor HCS and
University of Michigan
Sarah Hochman, MD
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist
NYU Langone Health
PLANNERS:
Theresa F. Madaline, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bhagyashri D Navalkele, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Infection Prevention
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jade Belcher
Coordinator, Education and Meetings
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America