Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

Infection Prevention and Control Education is provided to all new House Staff at orientation annually in June.  Education covered in orientation includes basic principles of Infection Prevention activities including hand hygiene protocols, CDC Isolation Precautions for Specific conditions, Santa Clara County TB isolation, treatment, and discharge protocols, Influenza education, safety device sharps training for syringes, phlebotomy, and  PIV catheters used at SHC.  Also included are State Law mandated measures MRSA patient screening and education, as well as CLIP documentation of line insertion and line necessity.  In addition, this year a large focus of our education will be on the SHC Clinical Effectiveness Project Getting to Zero: Reducing Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections.  The CLIP( Central Line Insertion Process) and Maintenance Bundle videos will be shown. Supporting documentation from this training is available below: