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Clinical Pearls for Nursing To Eliminate CLABSIs. Deborah Baugher Hobson, BSN Quality Improvement Chairperson/Staff Nurse Johns Hopkins Hospital Surgical Intensive Care Unit Patient Safety Clinical Specialist, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. Melinda Sawyer, RN, MSN
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Clinical Pearls for Nursing To Eliminate CLABSIs Deborah Baugher Hobson, BSN Quality Improvement Chairperson/Staff Nurse Johns Hopkins Hospital Surgical Intensive Care Unit Patient Safety Clinical Specialist, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care Melinda Sawyer, RN, MSN Patient Safety Officer, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, The Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group (QSRG) Safe Practices Webinar, March 18, 2010
Clinical Pearls for Nursingto Eliminate CLABSIs • Putting evidence into every day practice: “walking the process” • Empowering the Nurses to stop the process at any step with every insertion • Now that the line is inserted…how do we maintain the line to remain “infection-free”?