NHSN
Concurrent Education Session - 60 minutes
Henrietta Smith, MSN, RN, CIC
Nurse Consultant/Infection Preventionist
Northrop Grumman Corporation, contractor for CDC/NHSN
Marietta, Georgia
Nothing to disclose
Mary Sibulsky, RN
Manager, AAAHC Surveyor
International Eye Institute
Green Valley, Arizona
AAAHC: Employment, NO compensation for this event.
The goal of the session is to describe how the new tool, the Outpatient Procedure Component, can be used by Ambulatory Surgery Centers to track and monitor adverse events such as SSIs and patient falls.