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Since I am the only IP at my facility of 113 beds, I am busy. Thankfully I have managers who are the HAI champions (subcommittee chairs, basically) for c. diff, CAUTI, CLABSI and SSIs. They are responsible for rolling out our education (with help of the educators) and setting up PI project and they run that meeting. We needed a lot of change when I first started in all these topics and there was no way to do it alone and THANKFULLY senior leadership were all for this. It really helps get buy in from the managers AND the staff. Hand hygiene audits were done by light duty staff for the year of 2024 but the turnover for that was becoming a challenge, so our Quality director put it to the units themselves to do the amount we need.  

I am super lucky this is set up this way, we are very productive and able to have more consistency, and we even have yearly zero harm fairs (include falls, wound care etc as well) for staff education. This amount of work isn't sustainable for one person alone. 

I have C.N.A. "Mentors" we meet monthly and as yet I haven't used them to help with this type of survey help but I have been thinking of it.  As my mentors are on all three shifts.  But I haven't wanted to over whelm them as the program is just off the ground.  But I think it is a great idea esp. about the empowerment.  My C.N.A.'s are growing  by leaps and bounds.

Just wanted to check and see if this worked for you.  I have been thinking about the same thing.