The Health Quality Innovation Network’s (HQIN) Simple Strategies Stand-Up webinar series for nursing home staff featured experts who discussed strategies for accurately identifying, assessing, documenting and preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the long-term care setting.
Watch the session Is It Really a UTI? Do You Know It When You See It?, from July 11, 2023, which featured presenter Danny Felty, MD, FAAFP, CMD, a practicing family physician and current medical director of several long-term care facilities in Virginia.
During this session, participants learned how to:
- Define symptomatic UTI versus asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Review UTI assessment criteria
- Discuss communication with prescribers
- Identify UTI prevention strategies
Presented By
Allison Spangler, BSN, RN, RAC-CT, QCP, Consulting Manager, Health Quality Innovators;
Sybil Goodwin, BSN, RN, DNS-CT, QCP, Senior Quality Improvement Advisor, Health Quality Innovators;
April Faulkner, Communications Specialist; Health Quality Innovators;
Danny Felty, MD, FAAFP, CMD, Chief Medical Officer, Legacy Care