Top Priority: CDC Guideline for Multiple Drug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)

Multiple drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) spread easily in the healthcare environment and are very resistant to the most common antibiotic treatments. Help your facility reduce the incidence or prevalence of MDROs by implementing the interventions outlined in this program.

Clinical Advisor(s):
CDC HICPAC committee member Vicki L. Brinsko, RN, BA, BSN, CIC

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Learning Objective: To provide interventions to control and eradicate MDROs by explaining the CDC Guideline recommendations, how to implement them and when to do active surveillance cultures

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Based on the CDC Guideline Management of Multi-drug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings, this program examines the General Recommendations that can be used across all healthcare settings on a routine basis. Also explored are recommendations for Intensified Efforts in the event that routine measures are not decreasing the incidence or prevalence of MDROs, or there is a new case or outbreak of an MDRO.

Highlights from this program include:

• Judicious use of antimicrobial agents
• Surveillance strategies
• Infection control interventions, including Standard Precautions and Contact Precautions
• Environmental decontamination
• Decolonization

For information on programs that specifically target MDROs such as MRSA, VRE or C. difficile click here for our Infection Control category.
Use this program for:

• New Employee Orientation
• Annual In-Service
• Mandatory Training
• Nursing Education
• Remedial/Risk Reduction Training

 

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