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Section: Applying CUSP to MRSA and SSI Prevention

A Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)-based project, like any other project, may fail due to a variety of factors. Usually when this happens, a postmortem project analysis is conducted to review what went wrong. People often say, "If we had only known that this was the reason that this project failed, we could have kept it from happening. We could have taken steps to fix the problems before we started.” And while that information might be useful for the next project, it doesn’t help the failed project that started with good intentions.

So, what if you could determine your team’s possible failure points before you start a new project? What if there was a magic telescope that could look into the future and let you see what is going to happen with your MRSA prevention program?

That is what a Premortem Project Assessment can help you do. A premortem analysis is a technique in which you and your team look forward to the end of the project and imagine that it has failed. Ask your team: What could have happened? What could have gone wrong? And, most importantly—since you are just at the start of the project—what can you do to keep that failure from happening?

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