Summary of Citations from 2024
- Elopement has trended up for IJs.
- IJs in 2025 — elopement x 5,
- On course to have double the complaints from last year.
- EVERYONE can check med carts to see if they are locked.
- Pressure wounds have decreased overall
- The number of IJs related to pressure wounds has decreased
- Do we really understand how and when to use enhanced barrier precautions?
- Lacking fall precautions and having fall precautions that are not being implemented.
- Avoidable accidents
- Make sure that wheel chairs are strapped down appropriately –> avoidable accident.
- If there is a pattern of behaviors that can lead to an accident try to address that pattern/behavior in the care plan and avoid the accident.
- There is no longer a resident initiated or facility initiated dc….just a discharge.
- It MAY be appropriate for some people to be discharged to a homeless shelter…depends on if it can be safely done and if it is the patient’s choice.
Measles
Clinical Quicksheet from CDPHE
Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Measles in Healthcare Settings | Infection Control | CDC
Recommendations for Measles in Healthcare Settings
1. Ensure that all HCP Have Presumptive Evidence of Immunity to Measles
- Presumptive evidence of immunity to measles for HCP includes:
- Written documentation of vaccination with 2 doses of measles virus-containing vaccine (the first dose administered at age ≥12 months; the second dose no earlier than 28 days after the first dose); OR
- Laboratory evidence of immunity (measles immunoglobulin G [IgG] in serum; equivocal results are considered negative); OR
- Laboratory confirmation of disease; OR
- Birth before 1957.
- Consider vaccinating HCP born before 1957 who do not have other evidence of immunity to measles.
- During a measles outbreak, 2 doses of measles virus-containing vaccine are recommended for all HCP, regardless of year of birth.
- Recommendations on immunization of HCP for measles are maintained by CDC and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).