Staff education

Recommendation

• Provide educational materials to staff about sepsis emphasizing the importance of preventing sepsis through proper infection control and expressing concerns when an individual/​patient demonstrates a change in health status.
• Provide regular education and training for staff on the provider’s sepsis protocol.

Rationale

• Ongoing education helps reinforce the reminder to ​“think sepsis.”
• Training on the organization’s sepsis procedures and protocols increases the likelihood of adherence.

Tools

• Awareness training for clinical staff
• Awareness training for non-clinical staff
• Sepsis Institute
• “Think Sepsis” poster in Spanish