Achieving a 1% Standard for Blood Culture Contamination Rate: 

Driving Best Practices and Practice Change Statewide

Wednesday, December 6 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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This session has been approved for (1) HR CE Nursing Credit.

LEARNING OECTIVES:

• Recommend practice changes to our current antimicrobial stewardship efforts
• Describe the impact of contaminated blood cultures on patients, antimicrobial stewardship efforts, quality patient outcomes and hospital economics
• Detail evidence-based practices for blood culture collection
• Explain the critical nature of using evidence-based practices in blood culture collection
• Describe the critical measure changes necessary to improve the accuracy of sepsis diagnosis
• Explain the state-wide quality improvement measure to achieve the CLSI goal of 1% blood culture contamination rate

SPEAKERS:

Deborah R. Campbell
RN-BC, MSN, CPHQ, IP, T-CHEST, CCRN alumna

Steve Goodson
Business Director

Tammy Johnson, RN, BS, CPM
AVP, Clinical Strategy and Customer Relations

Alyx Fergus
Clinical Manager - Southeast