Industry Partner Showcase

Utilizing Lean Principles and Other Strategies to Decrease CLABSI Rates

Speaker(s)

• SO

  Sara Owens, BSN, RN, CPN

  Clinical Marketing Manager
  PDI

Overview of the lean principles used by vascular access teams to effectively reduce CLABSI rates.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the origin of Lean management and its place in healthcare.
• Outline Lean principles and tools and describe how they can be applied to vascular access and central line care and maintenance.
• Identify additional strategies to complement the Lean approach.