- Most Costly Hospital-Acquired Infection
- Improve Resident Training Through Cognitive Load Theory
- CME Included with Every Course
- ChatGPT for Medical Education
- Most Missed Exam Questions
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Most Harmful and Costly Hospital-Acquired Infection
It’s not just oral hygiene, but consideration of the whole system of lung and oral biome exchange disruption that gets overlooked in reducing the risk of NV-HAP.
“Perhaps because it sounds simple—brush your teeth—the typical efforts applied to a well-run and monitored quality improvement initiative are not always applied to launching oral hygiene initiatives.”
We took a little poll to see if anyone remembered ever getting a toothbrush handed to them in the hospital. Nope. 😀
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Most Harmful and Costly Hospital-Acquired Infection - Infection Control Today
CU Physician Works to Improve Resident Training Through Cognitive Load Theory
Cognitive Load Theory (the short version of you’re-only-human) is being addressed here as a training problem. That physicians in training in complex high stress environments don’t learn as well. It advocates an approach the is less about throwing residents to the wolves, and more gracefully introducing the complex and stressful environment of health care.
But besides applying this to trainees, they ought to be applying it to physician practice. With more and more information (much of it extraneous and of no use), more things to know, more specialization, and the constant demand to do more and see more patients, doctors and nurses have to be suffering too.
CU Physician Works to Improve Resident Training Through Cognitive Load Theory
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