{"id":2252,"date":"2025-02-21T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:07:33","slug":"reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2024, the new perioperative leader team partnered with quality and created an interprofessional team to review surgical site infections and opportunities for improvement. Through great teamwork and collaboration, a multiprong approach was established and a comprehensive bundle was established.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clinical nurses from the SSI committee reviewed literature, current AORN Guidelines and revised their site-specific skin preps in the operating room with training and return demonstrations. Perioperative nurses reviewed evidence-based practices for preoperative hair clipping and CHG wipe application and applied those skills to practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interdisciplinary team also developed an OR cleaning grid, educated on instrument point of use care and transportation policy, implemented ATP testing after cleaning operating rooms.\u00a0 Perioperative medicine, the total joint coordinator and preoperative nurses successfully implemented mupirocin decolonization protocol for targeted surgical cases.\u00a0 In addition, the committee partnered with Home Health, HBS, ED, and adult family medicine providers to refer surgical site concerns back to the surgeon for management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Together, these practice changes have contributed to an overall reduction in surgical site infections over the past five months.\u00a0 Baseline data is 2.02 offs ratio and post implementation, the rate has reduced to 1.49 odds ratio.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2024, the new perioperative leader team partnered with quality and created an interprofessional team to review surgical site infections and opportunities for improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_custom_body_class":"","_custom_post_class":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ncal_area":[95],"site_only":[],"report_year":[58],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empirical-quality-outcomes","ncal_area-san-rafael","report_year-58","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services - Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services - Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In May 2024, the new perioperative leader team partnered with quality and created an interprofessional team to review surgical site infections and opportunities for improvement.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-21T21:25:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-10T20:07:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED-1024x768.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rosenj\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rosenj\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"rosenj\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/person\/fbb733bdda9ab724fc9a5c2699b24c85\"},\"headline\":\"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-21T21:25:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-10T20:07:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Empirical Quality Outcomes\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\",\"name\":\"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services - Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-21T21:25:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-10T20:07:33+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg\",\"width\":2400,\"height\":1800,\"caption\":\"Nurses in the OR\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/\",\"name\":\"Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Kaiser Permanente\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/kaiser-permanente-1.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/kaiser-permanente-1.svg\",\"width\":\"1024\",\"height\":\"1024\",\"caption\":\"Kaiser Permanente\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/person\/fbb733bdda9ab724fc9a5c2699b24c85\",\"name\":\"rosenj\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/author\/rosenj\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services - Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services - Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report","og_description":"In May 2024, the new perioperative leader team partnered with quality and created an interprofessional team to review surgical site infections and opportunities for improvement.","og_url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/","og_site_name":"Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report","article_published_time":"2025-02-21T21:25:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-10T20:07:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":768,"url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED-1024x768.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"rosenj","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"rosenj","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/"},"author":{"name":"rosenj","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/person\/fbb733bdda9ab724fc9a5c2699b24c85"},"headline":"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services","datePublished":"2025-02-21T21:25:45+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-10T20:07:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/"},"wordCount":196,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg","articleSection":["Empirical Quality Outcomes"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/","url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/","name":"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services - Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg","datePublished":"2025-02-21T21:25:45+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-10T20:07:33+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Empirical-Quality-Outcomes2.Reduction-in-Surgical-Site-Infections-Perioperative-ServicesCROPPED.jpg","width":2400,"height":1800,"caption":"Nurses in the OR"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/empirical-quality-outcomes\/reduction-in-surgical-site-infections-perioperative-services\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Reduction in surgical site infections, perioperative services"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/","name":"Kaiser Permanente Northern California 2024 Annual Nursing Report","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#organization","name":"Kaiser Permanente","url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/kaiser-permanente-1.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/kaiser-permanente-1.svg","width":"1024","height":"1024","caption":"Kaiser Permanente"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/#\/schema\/person\/fbb733bdda9ab724fc9a5c2699b24c85","name":"rosenj","url":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/author\/rosenj\/"}]}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"ncal_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ncal_area?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"site_only","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site_only?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"report_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursingncal.kaiserpermanente.org\/annual-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report_year?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}