The discussion this week will be a peer-to-peer activity. You will be randomly assigned in a group with your class colleagues and be required to respond to your group member’s posts. Your assigned colleagues will respond to your post. The instructor will create the groups based on the size of the class. Remember to respond to at least two of your peers.
Obtain your unit/hospital’s baseline surgical procedure infection rate. What does the numerator and the denominator mean? How is infection surveillance managed at your facility? What protocol does your facility have in place to prevent surgical site infections?
In your peer responses: Compare your facility-specific rate and protocol with that of your assigned colleague(s), rationalizing the differences. Why s might the denominator data be important to the facility?
OR
If you are not at a facility; search the internet for data related to infection surveillance; surgical procedures/site infections and strategies in place to prevent this infection in an acute care setting. Create an outline of content you would teach to the stakeholders in your workplace/area of practice about the importance of denominator data and how this data can inform healthcare decisions.
The discussion this week will be a peer-to-peer activity. You will be randomly assigned in a group with your class colleagues and be required to respond to your group member’s posts. Your assigned colleagues will respond to your post. The instructor will create the groups based on the size of the class. Remember to respond to at least two of your peers.
Obtain your unit/hospital’s baseline surgical procedure infection rate. What does the numerator and the denominator mean? How is infection surveillance managed at your facility? What protocol does your facility have in place to prevent surgical site infections?
In your peer responses: Compare your facility-specific rate and protocol with that of your assigned colleague(s), rationalizing the differences. Why s might the denominator data be important to the facility?
OR
If you are not at a facility, search the internet for data related to infection surveillance, surgical procedures/site infections and strategies in place to prevent this infection in an acute care setting. Create an outline of content you would teach to the stakeholders in your workplace/area of practice about the importance of denominator data and how this data can inform healthcare decisions.