Give Blood Culture Quality the Attention Your Patients Deserve

Join this hour-long webinar led by Janet Conner, an experienced infection control specialist with over 30 years of expertise across various healthcare settings, to master the critical aspects of blood culture quality in sepsis diagnosis. Learn why blood cultures remain the gold standard for sepsis diagnosis and discover how to optimize their sensitivity and specificity through improved techniques and technologies. Explore the importance of maintaining key metrics, particularly contamination rates, and understand the national movement toward achieving a 1% or less blood culture contamination goal. Gain insights into implementing a multi-disciplinary approach and evidence-based blood culture collection bundle to reduce contamination events effectively. Master the principles of high reliability organization to achieve sustained compliance and optimal outcomes. Through detailed learning objectives, understand the pre-analytical and analytical variables affecting blood culture quality, and develop strategies for sustainable quality improvement combining best practices with process improvement principles. PACE credits are available for registered Labroots members who complete the webinar, with certification valid until August 28, 2026.