Page 25 - 2016 Nursing Annual Report | Summa Health

Terry Rueckert, MBA, BSN, RN (left)
and Barbara Leeder, BSN, RN

Outcome “We made the nurses
question things more, and
There was an immediate improvement in the system-wide now when they see us
CLABSI rate once Leeder and Rueckert began rounding coming they’ll immediately
with a notable 74 percent reduction of CLABSI at the say, ‘I’ve checked my
Akron Campus. lines, they’re good!’ It just
takes a few minutes at the
74% beginning of your shift to
make things right and the
reduction of patient benefits.”

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They have also noticed clinical staff nurses becoming
more proactive in obtaining orders to move central lines
from sites associated with a higher risk of CLABSI to sites
where there is less risk of infection.

“That’s going to help ultimately to get the rates down even
more over the next few months,” said Rueckert.

In June 2017, Leeder gave a poster presentation about
their practices and successes at the Ohio Hospital
Association Quality Summit in Columbus, Ohio.