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Simulation Scenario: Serves as the nurse manager for the medical ICU, surgical ICU, or CCU at Hope Medical Center, a level I trauma center. Over the past three months, the center has noted an increase in the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) on these units. The chief nursing officer (CNO) has assigned you to develop and lead the Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI Team and its use of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) model/toolkit (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2014), to significantly reduce the CAUTI rates and prevent the development of new cases (see http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculumtools/cusptoolkit/index.html). In addition to this resource, you should take the opportunity to review selected CAUTI information items in the Additional Resources box near the bottom of the following ANA web page: http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/ImprovingYour-Practice/ANA-CAUTI-Prevention-Tool. Paper Components (adapted from the Learn About CUSP PowerPoint slide presentation at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/learn/index.html): Section I: Assemble the Team • • • Briefly identify characteristics of effective teams, including team leadership, and barriers to team performance. Define the membership, roles, and responsibilities of the Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI Team members. Develop and describe a strategy to build a successful Stop CAUTI Team. Section II: Engage the Senior Executive • • • List and describe the major responsibilities of a CNO. Describe the proposed role of the CNO in relation to the Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI Team. Develop and describe a strategy to successfully engage the CNO in the work of the team. Section III: Understand the Science of Safety • • Briefly describe the contemporary context of the Science of Safety and its application to CAUTI prevention. List key principles of safe design and identify how they apply to roles and work of the members of the Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI Team. Section IV: (Using On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI Implementation Guide: http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/cauti-hospitals/toolkit-impl.html)-Develop a Plan to Reduce and Prevent CAUTIs at Hope Medical Center • Describe a unified CAUTI reduction and prevention plan that can be implemented on each unit. Be sure to include the communication, educational, monitoring, and knowledge-skill assessment activities of the plan each member of the team and relevant staff will use in its implementation. Section V: Evaluation of the Plan and Team Leadership • Identify and describe assessment and measurement tools the Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI Team can use to determine whether the plan was successful.
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Running head: CATHETER-ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION

Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

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Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Section I: Assemble the Team
Briefly identify characteristics of effective teams, including team leadership and
barriers to team performance.
There are several characteristics that the Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI team needs
to have for significant results. The team should have effective teamwork, flexibility, technical
skills, communication skills, and enthusiasm. The team members also need to have respect,
which will enable them to be comfortable working with each other. Having a shared ambition
and working towards a common goal are virtues that need to be firmly upheld. By embracing the
characteristics mentioned earlier, the team members will be as effective as possible in their
operations.
On the other hand, team leaders also play an essential role in formulating rigid team
dynamics. Goods leaders encourage the team members to employ teamwork for significant
results (Marquis & Huston, 2015). Team leaders need to have practical communication skills,
wise decision making, and an encouraging spirit of trust and harmony. There are specific barriers
that might present themselves to the team affecting the performance. The barriers involve lack of
managerial involvement, conflicts amongst the team members, lack cohesiveness, employee
dissatisfaction, and poor communication being the greatest of all.
Define the membership, roles, and responsibilities of the Hope Medical Center Stop
CAUTI Team members.
Hope Medical Center Stop CAUTI team members include the infection control
department, nurse managers, executive, nursing assistants, nurses, and physicians. Following the

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several CAUTI cases reported, all the team members have roles and responsibilities to play in
reducing or even preventing more cases. The leaders have to communicate effectively with the
staff members and collaborate to form strategies addressing the issue. They also need to create
awareness for the staff to be well acquainted with the infection's vast information. Additionally,
the leaders need to train the staff competently on h...


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