Culture
A strong patient safety culture supports a learning environment and invites diverse input from teams to support wise decisions and system improvements. Use these tools to help your team make lowering infections part of your culture. Examples of common barriers that inhibit developing this culture are ineffective action from leaders, or staff sensing that their efforts do not result in positive patient outcomes. Use these resources to support your team’s actions:
- Making It Work – Celebrating Success and Spreading CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Beyond the Unit (PDF, 266.4 KB)
- Making It Work – Engaging Physician Champions in Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI (PDF, 429.7 KB)
- Making It Work – Engaging Senior Leaders in Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections (PDF, 291.7 KB)
- Making It Work – Overcoming the "Just in Case" Mindset (PDF, 269.6 KB)
- Making It Work – Empowering Nurses To Implement Nurse-Driven Protocols for Reducing CAUTI in the ICU Setting (PDF, 249.7 KB)
- Making It Work – Spot Coaching To Support Behavior Change (PDF, 272.4 KB)
- Audio interview with Pat Posa – How To Have Difficult Conversations With Colleagues Around Infection Prevention Practices (MP3, 40.5 MB, 22:05 minutes; Transcript, PDF, 318.2 KB)
- Audio interview with Pat Posa – How To Empower Nurses To Effectively Implement a Nurse-Driven Protocol for Removing Urinary Catheters, Including How To Obtain Buy-in From Physicians (MP3, 22.1 MB, 16:05 minutes; Transcript, PDF, 301 KB)
- Audio interview with Anne Donovan – How To Empower Staff To Speak Up To Stop a Central Line Insertion if They See a Breach in Aseptic Technique, Including How To Obtain Buy-in From Physicians (MP3, 21.4 MB, 23:19 minutes; Transcript, PDF, 297.4 KB)
- Senior Leadership Podcast – Why Senior Leadership Engagement Matters (11:57 minutes; Transcript, PDF, 252.2 KB)
- Video – Having Difficult Conversations About Preventing Infections in the ICU (5:41 minutes)
- Video – Empowering Nurses To Implement a Protocol for Urinary Catheter Removal (5:06 minutes)
- Video – Speaking Up During Central Line Insertion To Prevent Infections (4:21 minutes)
