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241. Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2024 - create a program that will educate patients on the correct method for collecting urine to be used for a culture—a … If the project succeeds in reducing contaminated urine cultures, this will help reduce unnecessary antibiotic

242. Antibiotic Stewardship Slides, Part 1: Hand Hygiene
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     March 01, 2017 - If there are no signs or symptoms, then don’t send a urine culture. … [CLICK] Using a urine culture is also bad way to determine infection and subsequent treatment because … “Extra urine cultures lead to extra antibiotics—and that’s not good for anyone.” … In our example, the person went on to explain, “Extra urine cultures lead to extra antibiotics—and that … Second, that positive urine cultures do not indicate CAUTI.

243. Nursing Protocol Training_Nasal Mupirocin (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers (by history, screening test [if performed], or clinical culture … positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) cultures …  For non-ICU patients with devices known to be MRSA carriers by history, screening, or clinical culture

244. Nursing Protocol Training_Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine) (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers (by history, screening test [if performed], or clinical culture … positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) cultures …  For non-ICU patients with devices known to be MRSA carriers by history, screening, or clinical culture

245. Guide to Sustainability Planning: Long-Term Care Facilities (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Culture of Improvement and a Deeply Engaged Staff The root of improvement lies in the safety culture … program exists), data on C. difficile laboratory events per 10,000 resident-days, and number of urine cultures … for Improving Antibiotic Use – Long-Term Care of therapy, number of starts), the number of urine cultures … being ordered or without a record that the prescriber reviewed the results of urine cultures. … Culture of Improvement and a Deeply Engaged Staff 3. Hardwiring Change 4.

246. Implementation Guide: Toolkit for MRSA Prevention in ICU & Non-ICU Settings (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Blood culture stewardship focuses on optimizing the use of blood cultures to improve the accuracy and … Blood Culture Stewardship Blood cultures are one of the most ordered microbiologic tests in acute care … false positive results and improve the yield of blood cultures. · Improving the process of reporting … The objective of blood culture stewardship is to optimize blood culture testing, improve the accuracy … cultures in non-neutropenic adult populations.

247. AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use: Final Report (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - Patient Safety Culture. … Changes to patient safety culture. … Number of Urine Cultures Collected. … Patient Safety Culture. … Patient Safety Culture.

248. PowerPoint Presentation
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     June 01, 2021 - Let’s get a UA and urine culture. … I’m calling because our policy states I must inform a health care practitioner about all positive cultures … Our policy states I must inform the on-call physician about all positive cultures. … Start an antibiotic based on the urine culture results. C. … His urine culture came back negative.

249. 5 Tk2 T3-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Using Whonet To Create Your Antibiogram (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - This software will analyze the culture results of your nursing home facility and supply you with the … It is strongly recommended that you get culture data from your affiliated lab electronically. … Under “Organisms,” select all the organisms that have been found in cultures at your facility. 4 … Under “Data files,” select the Text file that you created from your culture data. … Antibiogram Template”) seem to fit with the frequency at which you’ve seen these organisms in positive cultures

250. Surveys on Patient Safety Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2025 - Surveys on Patient Safety Culture Patient safety culture refers to the beliefs, values and norms … Since 2001, the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Program has supported AHRQ's mission … by advancing the scientific understanding of patient safety culture in healthcare settings. … The SOPS Program conducts activities to understand, measure, and improve patient safety culture in healthcare

251. 5 Tk2 P3T6-Sample Vignettes Phase 3 Final (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - A urine culture is pending. 2. Mr. … You ordered cultures (blood and urine). His chem-7 and lactate are normal.

252. Summary of Patient Safety Research Opportunities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - Can we impact staff perception of organizational safety culture in long-term care through innovative … organizational design influence patient safety, and how can systems ensure that safety is embedded in their cultures … What are best evidence-based methods for establishing a Just Culture in hospitals? … organizational cultures that prioritize prevention of harm to patients, their families, and healthcare … reduce burnout Interventions to engage and incentivize executive leaders to foster and sustain care cultures

253. Preventing CAUTIs in the ICU Setting
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     September 01, 2015 - Technical Issues Evidence-based guidelines Socio-adaptive (cultural issues) Staff behavior and unit culture … Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals Adaptive or Cultural Changes Require a change of values, attitudes, or beliefs … for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals 15 Behavioral or Cultural Factors Pan culturing ICUs may obtain cultures … from multiple sites when a patient has a temperature spike Not an automatic culture Belief that all

254. 034-Ss-Action-Chart-Decisionmaking-Readiness (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - The order of approaching these key stakeholders will depend on the culture, standard processes, and existing … decolonization and nasal iodophor to be inferior to mupirocin in the prevention of S. aureus clinical cultures … shown to be more effective than decolonization with iodophor in reducing S. aureus and MRSA clinical cultures … and all-pathogen blood cultures in adult ICU patients, in the context of daily CHG bathing. 21 If using

255. Guide To Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Culture consists of the team’s values, attitudes, and beliefs, which all have an impact on the team’ … Other critical factors for reducing CAUTIs include appropriate use of urine cultures and non-treatment … By measuring how often urine cultures are collected for all residents with or without an indwelling … of urinary tract infections is a key element of antibiotic stewardship; measuring the rate of urine cultures … Decreasing inappropriate use of urine testing (urine cultures) is one strategy that can be used to decrease

256. Cellulitis-One-Page (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - pedis, cutaneous ulcer, past saphenous venectomy, or impaired venous or lymphatic drainage · Blood cultures … are low yield; consider for patients with severe illness or immunocompromise · Obtain wound culture … Place local treatment recommendations here] · Narrowing and oral therapy · Narrow based on available culture

257. Slide 1 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2013 - create cultures when they create groups and organizations. . . … (A1) BELIEF 2. … (A1) BELIEF 88% 2. … (C2) BELIEF 2. … (A1) BELIEF 2.

258. Final Progress Report: Midcoast Maine Patient Safety and IT Integration (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Ronald Westrum, who has developed a cultural typology that is based on how different organizational cultures … , the Davis Gro up rec ognizes Edgar Schein’s notion that three distinct cultures exist within any … able to be a reliable learning system unless it reconciles the built-in conflict between these three cultures … environment in which the system operates, Northeast Health as a system, and Schein’s three distinct cultures … There would be a need to modify work habits to effectively utilize the Meditech system, but, with a custom

259. Organizational Climate of Staff Working Conditions and Safety—An Integrative Mode (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2004 - Organizational culture refers more broadly to the norms, values, beliefs, and assumptions shared by … that employees have more job satisfaction and experience less stress and burnout when they work in cultures … either typological or dimensional models.19 Typological models seek to classify entire organizational cultures … , or competitiveness and goal attainment.36 Shortell and his colleagues adopted this model to the cultures … Cultures in organizations: three perspectives. New York: Oxford; 1992. 17.

260. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses – Slides (doc file)
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     September 01, 2022 - Slide 10 Moment 2: Microbiologic Diagnosis SAY: Wound cultures should be considered if purulence … immunocompromise or foreign material in place, or who are being admitted to the hospital should have wound cultures … a Gram stain can be performed and to optimize the likelihood of recovering a microorganism from the cultures