For this discussion, share your current facilities nurse driven clostridium difficile protocol. If your hospital does not have a protocol, please share one that you found online. Discuss the importance of proper clostridium difficile testing. Review the article.
Lastly, please locate and share one of the latest non-antibiotic interventions for the treatment of clostridium difficile. Antimicrobial stewardship: The role of the nurse] . Discuss antibiotic resistance and the nurse’s role in antimicrobial stewardship.
“Give a brief report on your own hospital’s antibiotic stewardship program and if nursing is an active discipline on this committee.”