Executive Summary
The Purpose of the Project
Catheter-related urinary tract infections are common in the hospital due to the widespread inappropriate use of urinary catheterization, in health care facilities. To achieve a holistic approach to catheter-related infection, there should be a dedicated team of professionals to offer personalized, and patient-centered care consisting of nurses, cardiologists, radiologists, and physicians specialized in vascular access.
The Types of Data Collection
For this process to be completely successful, three primary tools will be useful in evaluating the quality initiative. They include a cause analysis, SWOT which will determine the organization's ability to provide a good environment improvement to thrive and ultimately will expose the weaknesses, strengths, and opportunities. The other tool is FMEA that enables the mapping of possible routes of failure and facilitates the planning of proactive or recovery measures. The cause analysis would contribute to unearthing the actual cause of poor infection control by bringing on board various organizational factors such as human resources, processes, and materials to determine where the real reason lies (Miniati, Frosini&Dori, 2015).
The Quality Milestones that Will Be Set
Proper staffing is one of the quality methods used which entails to ensuring that the staff is qualified to deliver quality healthcare services that take place through training. The training aims to change the behavior of the employees regarding catheter usage (Westgard, &Westgard, 2014). Fine-tuning the environment to make it friendly may motivate nurses to do their best and in so doing the incidence of CAUTIs will reduce and availing the required materials in the right quantities increases the probability of correct catheter insertion and removal thus minimizing infections.
The Role of IT
Technology as one of the main pillars will serve an important part in the entire exercise. Stakeholders will be educated through social media and email platforms that rely heavily on technology. The use of the internet will also be of significance as most research insight and advice will be sort through the various online portals related to CAUTI prevention. The problem of breakdown of communication among team members and delayed sending of diagnosis results ids evitable by using a hospital management system that would allow all team members to post and access patient information on a single system. Certainly, this practice would promote mutual respect among the team members since they would realize the academic rigor involved in the rest of professions.
Any Internal or External Benchmarks
The US Preventive Services Task Force has published various guidelines used in the prevention of CAUTIs. These guidelines undergo updating from time to time. It is important for nurses to stay updated with the changes and use the current recommendations in their day-to-day operations. The organization used this as one of the external benchmarks that dealt with problem before .Additionally, it recommended some medication and ways to tackle the same and is an important agency in the eradication exercise
The Time frame of When and How to Evaluate and Re-Evaluate
The Key Players
The success of the initiative will depend on the levels of staff engagement and departmental heads from every hospital, as they are the ones that attend strategic meetings on behalf of their departments. They then relay any important strategies and recommendations to their members who are key stakeholders and drivers of the initiative allover. All the stakeholders should be willing to make good use of evidence-based practices in upholding quality, and the management should strive to improve the working conditions of its employees (Ritchie et al., 2016).
References
Miniati, R., &Dori, F. (2015).Integrated risk and quality management in hospital systems. Journal of general internal medicine, 25(5), 13-77.
Ritchie, C., Andersen, R., Eng, J., Garrigues, S. K., Intinarelli, G., Kao, H., & Barnes, D. E. (2016). Implementation of an interdisciplinary, team-based complex care supports health care model at an academic medical center: Impact on health care utilization and quality of life. PLoS ONE, 11(2), 1-14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148096
Westgard, J. O., &Westgard, S. A. (2014).Basic quality management systems. Available at https://www.westgard.com/images/stories/BQMS-Preview.pdf
