ABSTRACT
Clinical Practice Model (CPM) Practice Guidelines facilitate the delivery of consistent, high-quality patient care by clarifying nursing services and supporting the practice and documentation of each step of the nursing process. CPM Practice Guidelines are unique because they are part of an integrated interactive systems thinking framework to support professional practice; they are reviewed and improved routinely using multiple sources of data and are used by hundreds of nurses daily throughout the United States and Canada. Guidelines are developed using a rigorous standardized format and process. Consensual validation is an important part of establishing and maintaining the credibility of these Guidelines.
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Nursing Care , Nursing Process , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Humans , Multiple Trauma/nursing , Reproducibility of Results , United StatesABSTRACT
The frequency of dressing changes for transparent dressings used on central lines is a critical issue in maintenance protocols aimed at prevention of catheter-related sepsis. Organisms migrating from the skin down the catheter have been implicated in causing catheter-related sepsis. Bacterial growth patterns under the transparent dressing are important in establishing protocols of care.
