Evaluating the effect of nurse-initiated discussion of infection management during ICU bedside rounds

Abstract

Intensive care unit (ICU) antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions generally do not include nurses although their role is increasingly recognised.1–4 Previous literature described inclusion of nurses and nurse-led AMS interventions outside of ICU daily bedside rounds.5 6 After using a structured quality improvement (QI) evaluation of the daily bedside rounding model of the ICU clinical team we hypothesised the addition of ‘infection’ as an entity in the ICU nurses’ structured daily report would improve interprofessional discussion of infection management.