Research Assignment: Central Line Blood Stream Infections

Central Line Blood Stream Infections
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In patients with Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections- (CLABSI) or Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CAUTIs) are staff education, monitoring, and prevention bundles, effective in reducing health associated infections during hospitalization.
Patients in ICU and Emergency Department are at high risk of hospital acquired infections, and evidence-based practice is utilized to improve nursing practice reduce the rate of infections, mortality and reduce hospitalization costs.
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In a study by Gokula, Smith, &Hickner (2007), the researchers highlighted the case of staff education in improving the appropriate use of catheters and hospital infections. Staff education is an appropriate intervention strategy that allows the employees to identify best practices. The inappropriate use of catheters increases the risk of urinary track infections (UTIs). This is particularly in the emergency department, where health practitioners have to make decisions that improve health outcomes. Staff education is equally beneficial since nurses are then expected to implement changes in hospital settings and this reduces the use of catheters and hospital acquired infections.
Staff education allows nurses to give feedback while they are assessed based on the prevention bundle and checklist. The more the staff understands the benefits of interventions and using evidence in practice, the more they are likely to support changes. At other times, hospitals face challenges because of poor resources that they cannot implement large scale changes, but staff education is effective. Previous studies have also highlighted that using team protocols and staff education decrease the rate of hospital acquired infections. This is particularly when then there is appropriate use of interventions, documentation and monitoring the incidence of infections (Gokula, Smith, &Hickner, 2007).
Even as researchers identify different strategies to reduce CLABSI and CAUTIs and following the prevention guidelines at all times is recommended to improve clinical outcomes. For instance, the proper management of the catheters reduces CAUTIs, and hospitals ought to have appropriate infrastructure to facilitate monitoring surveillance. Such measures make it easier to assess the success of interventions where the nursing staff is then held accountable when there is infection control and prevention. Burnett et al (2010) argues that staff education allows facilitation and dissemination of knowledge and evidence where the emergency nurse is then integrates best practices to reduce the incidences of CAUTI. Interventions that increase knowledge and competency of nurses improve the quality of patient care where nurses provide safe care to prevent the hospital-acquired infection. Emergency nurses are faced with the challenge of preventing infectious complications even when they relied on best practice, highlighting the need for reinforcing what they already know.
Scheck McAlearney et al., (2015) also argue that meaningful use of data and systematic education has been integrated with evidence-based quality improvement and patient sa...