Description
Educate the community about AMS:
What it is, why it is important, how they can participate/their role in AMS.
Using the community to assist in AMS, drive down the inappropriate usage of antibiotics AND MDROs, AND C. difficile infections.
Assist the providers in making right choices without decreasing the assumption of decreasing customer service.
Project Resources
Core Elements
Education
Educating clinicians about resistance and optimal prescribing.
PDSA Cycles
Progress on PDSA Cycle 1
Educate the community via: 1. ED waiting area TV with slide show 2. Facebook educational blurbs 3. WHMC Website 4. WHMC Pulse public magazine 5. Have APIC resources available as handouts for the Outpatient clinic sites 6. AMS Posters for each outpatient exam room
Utilize the WHMC Communications/Relation point person
Utilize information from CDC and APIC to create the eduational materials
If the community is aware of AMS and the necessity for it, the requests for inappropriate testing should go down.
1. Sent the Power point presentation for the ED waiting room TV to Patricia Duff, Community Relations, on August 28, 2019
2 & 3. Sent the APIC informational sheets for the Website and Facebook to Patricia Duff, CR on September 16, 2019
5. Sent the APIC informational sheets to the clinics, they made available via wall hanging brochure holders September
6. Sent the CDC AMS posters 11×17, laminated to all the outpatient sites (including ED) for the patient exam rooms (83rooms) on September 16, 2019