tailieunhanh - Ebook Preventing hospital infections - Real-world problems, realistic solutions: Part 2

(BQ) Part 1 book "Preventing hospital infections - Real-world problems, realistic solutions" presents the following contents: The importance of leadership and followership, common problems, realistic solutions, toward sustainability, the collaborative approach to preventing infection, the collaborative approach to preventing infection,. | 5 The Importance of Leadership and Followership My own definition of leadership is this The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. General Bernard MoNTGCMERy Each year the American College of Healthcare Executives surveys hospital CEOs to see what s worrying them the most. Their top concern in 2012 was all too familiar Financial challenges has held top ranking for years. The surprise was number two Patient safety and quality displaced healthcare reform implementation which had held second place since its introduction to the survey in Did that mean CEOs were spending more time on quality improvement such as preventing healthcare-associated infection Not according to the 2013 returns which showed patient safety kicked back to a third-place tie with government mandates whereas financial challenges and healthcare reform were back at numbers one and two. Too bad. The C-suite has an important role in the kind of initiatives described in these pages. 54 PREVENTING HOSPITAL INFECTIONS In our studies of quality improvement interventions we found a sizable number of top leaders who devoted considerable time and energy to promoting these initiatives. At one hospital an infection preventionist reported that several of our vice presidents. . . would actually go to the units and talk with the staff and see how the initiative was going. On the other hand we discovered hospitals that had completed very successful projects to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection CLABSI and catheter-associated urinary tract infection CAUTI whose top executives did nothing more for the projects than refrain from rejecting them. The leadership came from elsewhere in the institution from physicians and nurses in every department and on every bureaucratic level. NONPROFITS ARE DIFFERENT Surprisingly little has been written in the popular media or in academe about leadership in a hospital setting. There has been

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• Preventing hospital infections
• The importance of leadership
• Common problems
• Realistic solution
• Toward sustainability
• The collaborative approach
• Preventing infection
• A new strategy
• Combat hospital infections
• An infection prevention initiative
• Types of interventions
• Building the team
• Universal precautions
• Blood stream
• Central line bundles
• Preventing central venous catheter associated blood stream
• Tertiary care hospital
• medical books
• pharmacology
• epidemiologic
• Obstetrics
• anatomy
• Preventing Morbidity
• Multidisciplinary Care
• The immune system
• Preventing infection at mucosal surfaces
• Immunological memory and vaccination
• Failures of the body’s defenses
• Its interactions with the immune system
• Perioperative practice at a glance
• Perioperative practice
• Preventing the transmission of infection
• Preoperative patient preparation
• Theatre scrubs
• Personal protective equipment