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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
© 2010 TMIT
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Clinical Pearls for Nursing
to 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”?
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