Webinar: Achieving a 1% Standard for Blood Culture Contamination Rate: Driving Best Practices and Practice Change Statewide

Overview:

Reducing blood culture contamination rate plays a significant role in driving antibiotic stewardship efforts and improving quality outcomes for hospital and healthcare systems. With the release of the recent CDC guidelines, Blood Culture Contamination: An Overview for Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Working with the Clinical Laboratory, more and more healthcare providers are seeking practice changes, including technology solutions, that will help them achieve the new CLSI goal of 1% blood culture contamination rate with best practices. 

In this webinar, learn more about these current and future measures to reduce contamination rates and improve the accuracy of blood culture results, and the practice change initiative of the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) to benchmark blood culture contamination rates and drive evidence-based best practices to reduce these rates statewide. 

Webinar Objectives:

• Recommend practice changes to 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:

Deb Campbell, RN-BC, MSN, CPHQ, IP, T-CHEST, CCRN
Vice President Quality and Health Professions
Kentucky Hospital Association
Louisville, KY

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

Tammy Johnson, RN, BS, CPM, is the Associate Vice President of Clinical Strategy & Customer Relations at Magnolia Medical Technologies. With over 30 years in nursing and 20 years as a nurse leader and current executive in the medical device industry, Tammy’s focus remains on changing the standard of care to prevent patient harm and the misspend of healthcare monies. Tammy holds degrees in nursing, business and healthcare management.