Sepsis Champions –How Hospital-Wide Involvement Changes Sepsis Care

Lily Popkin, MSN, RN, CENSepsis CoordinatorLutheran Medical Center

Frankie Hamilton, MSN, MBA, RN, CCRN-K, PCCN-K, CNMLSepsis Quality SpecialistLenox Hill Hospital

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Sepsis ChampionsALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!

Lenox Hill HospitalNew York, NY

652 Beds

Teaching acute care hospital

Member hospital of Northwell Health

Manhattan's Upper East Side

Embracing the Champion Model

“Practice transformation requires a sustained improvement effort that is guided by a larger vision and commitment, which assures that individual changes fit together into a meaningful whole” (Shaw et al., 2012).

Project Champions are experts in a particular arena of healthcare and they help achieve organizational goals.

Prompt identification and treatment of sepsis is an organizational goal of every healthcare institution and is extremely impactful on patient morbidity and mortality rates.

More on the Champion Model

The champion model has been

embraced in many areas of healthcare

that involve nursing sensitive indicators, as

well as patient experience overall:

CAUTI

Falls

Patient Experience

Hourly Rounding

Skin Care

With a strong group of champions in

place, hospitals are able to achieve

change on a large scale.

What is the Role of a Sepsis Champion?

Sepsis Champions help to optimize sepsis

management and emphasize the importance

of early recognition and timely treatment.

Sepsis Champions facilitate sepsis care and

optimize patient outcomes through:

Early identification of sepsis

Escalation of care for patients with sepsis

Initiation of treatment/ sepsis protocol

Continuity of treatment/ completion of sepsis

protocol

Getting Started!

Huddle up!

Tug at the heart strings

Get the staff engaged!

https://youtu.be/GNz3S3tvYLA

Multimodal messaging

Ensure all shifts are represented

Ask your leadership for candidates

Make a star appearance at various

meetings

Time for a cameo!

Building Momentum

Start spreading the news!

Share sepsis data with the team

Ask team members to find new recruits!

Ask for input from your team!

Recognize their efforts in a public forum or recognition

platform

Set up monthly meetings with the champions

Work with nursing leadership for schedule accommodations

Have a succession plan in place

Build your team!

Keep it fun!

Lutheran Medical CenterWheat Ridge, CO

259 Beds

Community-based, acute-care hospital

Part of SCL Health

What do our Sepsis Champions Look Like?

We use champions from all units!

Goal is 2 RNs from every unit – 1 day shift & 1 night shift

What do our Sepsis Champions do?

Attend all monthly meetings of the Sepsis Committee

Ensure the meeting information is passed along to their respective units

Bring any questions from the units back to the committee

Help identify gaps in practice

Assist with process improvement projects

Help educate their units – Some are being trained to do full Sepsis Education

How to keep the program going?

Do check ins with your sepsis champions without the “full

committee”

Every year evaluate who is involved in the committee

Ensure monthly that you evaluate who is attending the meetings

If a sepsis champion must step down, ask them if they have a

replacement

Every meeting have a round table! You never know what may be

brought up!

What will your Sepsis Champions

look like???

Q and A

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January 31, 2019 @ 2:00 pm ET

Children’s Hospital Association 2019 Sepsis Webcast Series

Challenging Sepsis: Nurses Take the Lead

Mary Kate Abbadessa MSN, RN, RN-BC, CPEN Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Andrea Cowan, RN, BSN Primary Children’s Hospital

Webinar seriesSepsis: Across the Continuum of Care

This webinar series is made possible with support from bioMérieux, Inc.

Caring for Sepsis Survivors: From ICU to post-hospital care February 12 at 1 pm ET

Hallie Prescott, MD, MScAssistant Professor in Internal MedicineDivision of Pulmonary & Critical Care MedicineUniversity of Michigan Health System

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When A Loved One Has SepsisA Caregivers Guide

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• Information and tips to help navigate the ICU from a patient’s admission to discharge.

• Topics such as the different roles of ICU team members and what nurses are checking when they assess their patients.

• Encourages caregivers to take time to care for themselves.

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