Team Functioning
From your first team convening where you set your unit's goals for preventing infections, to celebrating and spreading successful strategies with other units, team functioning is essential to creating and sustaining a culture of safety. Common challenges addressed by these tools are how to structure multidisciplinary rounds to support infection prevention or what are ways our leaders can engage with others to optimize this work. To get your team on the right track, try these resources:
- Making It Work – Celebrating Success and Spreading CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Beyond the Unit (PDF, 347 KB)
- Making It Work – Managing Urinary Retention and Catheterization in Intensive Care Unit Patients With Primary Neurologic Disorders (PDF, 251 KB)
- Making It Work – Multidisciplinary Rounding for Patient Safety (PDF, 282.6 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, 347 KB)
- Making It Work – Chlorhexidine Bathing and Perineal Cleaning (PDF, 372.7 KB)
- Team Roster (Word, 271 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)
- Senior Leadership Podcast – Why Senior Leadership Engagement Matters (11:57 minutes; Transcript, PDF, 252.2 KB)
- Senior Leadership Podcast – What Does It Mean To Be Engaged? (13:30 minutes; Transcript, PDF, 263.4 KB)
- Video – Having Difficult Conversations About Preventing Infections in the ICU (5:41 minutes)
