Section: Applying CUSP to MRSA and SSI Prevention
Establishing new interventions and changes in your surgical service or facility is just part of the challenge. In your planning, you should ask yourself: How do you keep your efforts and progress going?
Sustainability may not always be in the forefront of our minds, but it’s worth considering it from the beginning and at every step of the way. Planning and building for sustainability throughout makes your projects more robust and resilient.
An important aspect of sustainability is evaluation: How can you measure your progress? Being able to accurately assess your development and to recognize successes and shortfalls enables you to adjust and improve your efforts for the future. Sustainability is a cycle of continual evaluation, analysis, feedback, and improvement.
Presentations
Presentation: CUSP Program: Sustainability
After reviewing the content of this presentation, viewers will be able to—
- Define sustainability for quality improvement success​
- Identify key components of sustainability​
- Identify challenges and successes in sustainability​
- Describe steps to create and implement a sustainability plan​
- Define a core Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) team, roles, and responsibilities​
- Identify tools to help maintain success
Documents:
- CUSP Program: Sustainability – Slides (PPTX, 5 MB)
- CUSP Program: Sustainability – Facilitator Guide (DOCX, 3 MB)
Tools and Resources
Learn About CUSP (Core CUSP Toolkit)
To learn about this subject in more detail, follow this link to the Learn About CUSP topic of the Core CUSP Toolkit.
