Johns Hopkins Medicine developed a checklist for clinicians to follow to prevent central line-associated infections.
This checklist also stresses the need to document any deviations from the checklist.
It has been adapted and used by organizations nationwide and proven to reduce the rate of potentially lethal bloodstream infections.
To view this checklist, which you can adapt for use in your facility, click here.
View other helpful patient safety and accreditation tools and checklists:
- Sample Infection Control Risk Assessment
- Sample Sterile Processing Department Testing and Load Form and QI Worksheet
- Sample Annual Tuberculosis Risk Assessment Worksheet