Walk the Walk to Reduce Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
Expiration Date: December 31, 2012. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To educate nurses about evidence-based practices that reduce the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections.
Objectives:
- Identify evidence-based nursing practices related to the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections.
- Discuss strategies for implementing these practices.
- Describe methods to enhance compliance with these practices.
Description: Although Central Venous Catheters (CVCs) are indispensable in critical care, they’re linked to serious infections that can lead to illness and death. CVC insertion disrupts skin integrity, greatly raising the patient’s risk of infection by bacteria, fungi, or both. Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSIs) can result in hemodynamic changes and organ dysfunction associated with severe sepsis and death.
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Carol Hatler is Director of Nursing Research at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Joan Hebden is Director of Infection Control at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Wendy Kaler is Manager of Infection Control at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California. Jeanne Zack is Infection Prevention and Control Manager at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis. The authors of this CNE activity have disclosed that they are paid speakers for CareFusion Corp. (formerly Cardinal Health). A peer review of the activity was carried out for freedom from bias due to conflict of interest.
The planners of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.
Contact Hours
2.0 contact hours will be awarded to nurses who successfully complete this CNE activity.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
