Catch those UTIs! MSU leaps into action!
The ON THE CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program): STOP CAUTI (Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection) national initiative, strives to eliminate CAUTIs in Maryland. The Maryland Hospital Association (MHA), the Maryland Patient Safety Center (MPSC) and the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care are providing consultation and coaching for Maryland hospitals that are participating in this important collaborative.
MSU was asked to join the collaborative and lead the way for AAMC to meet this important patient safety goal. Using evidence-based practice and a Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program, MSU has partnered with our Infection Control team, to meet that goal of zero CAUTI!
Starting in November of 2011, MSU joined the MHA’s “On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI program.” Our unit goal was to reduce the number of CAUTI by 25%, with the ultimate goal of zero CAUTI, and to reduce the number of Foley days by 25%. In collaboration with our Infection Control practitioners, we have made excellent progress. Our nursing staff and PCT II partners in care are thinking about catheters in a different way.
How was this accomplished?
Members of the MSU CAUTI Team, Mary Cohn, Educator, Lauren Stylc RNI, Stephanie Taylor RNII, and Rachel Turner RNII, rounded on the unit 5 days a week, for over a month, talking to nurses about urinary catheters. They discussed whether or not the patient had a Foley, if there was an appropriate indication, and if there was opportunity to remove the indwelling catheter. Geographical Rounding with our physician partners and clinical support staff created an opportunity for the team to address Foleys on a daily basis. We met monthly with our Infection Control partners, Ann Van Waes, RN, Penny Kennedy, Infection Control Practitioner and Beth Rowse, RN, to review trends, discuss goals and celebrate our success.
As you can see below our success has been remarkable. Our goal is to maintain the gain, keeping a zero CAUTI rate and continuing to reduce the number of Foley days. We have just received the data for August and we are still at zero!
Click here and select the CAUTI video and watch the MSU staff in action!
-Christine Frost, RN
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