Elements of a successful infection prevention committee.
Elements of a successful infection prevention committee.
As an HCM professional, you have been asked to serve on your hospital’s newly-created Infection Prevention Committee. The purpose of this committee is to prevent, manage, and track hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). The committee’s first meeting is next week, and you must prepare an introductory presentation for the committee members.
Evaluation Title: Hospital Acquired Infections Presentation
Research Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) data for your state from the CDC website. (Links to an external site.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016). State-based HAI prevention (Links to an external site.) [Website].
Research infection prevention committees in hospitals nationwide.
Identify 3 elements of a successful infection prevention committee.
Compare the data discovered to a set of fictional HAI data for your hospital.
Create the fictional data for your hospital and choose which infections to present to the committee.
Create a PowerPoint presentation to deliver to the Infection Prevention Committee that includes the following:
An introduction that includes who you are and how your HCM experience will contribute to your role on the committee.
The comparison of state data to the hospital’s data along with an explanation.
An explanation of the 3 performance goals of the committee (adapted from those gathered through research).
A minimum of three references on a closing slide.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
