Jobic Ray Butao, RN, a critical care nurse in the intensive care unit at West Kendall Baptist Hospital, helped implement a new type of leadership rounds in the ICU focused on nursing-sensitive indicators. He also led initiatives to tackle central-line associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections, resulting in no central line-related infections over a 11-month period and only one catheter-associated UTI case.
The eight-member wound ostomy nursing team at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics have helped ensure the organization remained below national benchmarks for pressure ulcers, partly due to a quarterly skin survey program for all inpatients. They also created a committee to address hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
The winners will receive the awards at the IHI Patient Safety Congress, held May 15 to May 17, in Houston.
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