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Please answer this question using what you have learned in the course along with your valuable personal experience. While there is not a word count requirement for these discussions, only substantive posts will receive full credit.

The situation:

You are the Administrator of a children's hospital. In this hospital you have had a rise in central line infections (due to a central venous catheter). Through a series of Quality Improvement initiatives (which many of you will learn about in HSMP 3600: Quality Improvement), you determine that there is improper cleaning of the hub site (the port that is next to the skin where the catheter is inserted). You normally had nursing cleaning the hub with ethanol, but found that the best practice according to the literature is to clean it with ChloraPrep. So you take ethanol out of the treatment carts, and the infections improve. However, it is soon found that ethanol is required per the policies and procedures to clean other items in the patients room. ChloraPrep works on these other items just as well as ehanol, but the P&P specifies ethanol. So you return ethanol to the treatment carts, and after some time your infection rates go back up. 

The question:

What happened? Why did infection rates go back up? What can you do about your policy and procedures?

*Recall the criteria: 

1. Student must first post response to topic

2. Answers must be substantive

3. Students must respond to two other posts.