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ORX Awards and the Winners Are ... - September 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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8 0 O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 • ensure patients bathe with chlorhexidine glu- conate the night before surgery; • administer antibi- otics an hour before procedures start; and • employ a stan- dardized approach to applying skin preps. What really sepa- rates their efforts at curbing SSIs — and makes them worthy of winning this year's OR Excellence Award for Infection Control — is the passion behind their actions. Infection control is ingrained in the hospital's culture. Look no further than the mandatory morning scrub-in for anyone perform- ing surgery. If you're planning on stepping into an OR that day, you'd better be in front of a sink with brush in hand for 3 minutes. Sure, it's a great time to catch up with colleagues and see how weekends went but, more importantly, it sets the tone for the rest of the day. "Preventing infections demands a huge collaborative effort," says Lori Benton, RN, the hospital's infection prevention and employee health manager. Everyone's on board at Tri-State Memorial, from the orthopedic surgeons who are "fanatical" about keeping infection rates low to the central sterile team, which takes as much ownership in l ALL BASES COVERED Tri-State Memorial's standard- ized prepping practices reduce post-op infection risks. Seth Six, RN

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