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Infection Control Performance
By adopting these step-by-step procedures or “Bundles” as the IHI calls them, the PICU has been able to drastically reduce:
On-going education and constant, motivational reminders to the entire care team keeps the infection control procedures top-of-mind. Nurses and doctors meet daily to track a patient’s care and progress. Mandatory daily assessment sheets are created to ensure that the bundled infection control procedures are followed and that the highest quality of care is provided.
This close monitoring has paid off; the PICU care team didn’t have one CAUTI for all of 2010 (nearly 566 days) and has currently gone more than 250 days without a single BSI. The Miller Children’s PICU has consistently met the National Health Safety Network target for infection prevention. When compared with other nationwide PICUs, Miller Children’s is in the top 10 percentile for preventing CABSIs, CAUTIs and VAP’s. |
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach goes through rigorous steps to ensure that hospital acquired infections don’t occur in the unit. A multi-disciplinary team of nurses, doctors, ancillary departments and managers from the PICU adopted a set of procedures from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to help make infection control even better than it already was.
In addition, the PICU care team went even further to improve their BSI performance by, collaborating with the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI). Miller Children’s uses their involvement with NACHRI to monitor their BSI performance against 70 other PICUs across the country and uses the PICU network for best practices and ideas.