Welcome to the 2016 National Healthcare Safety Network, or N-H-S-N,
Quick Learn series. These CDC presentations
are an educational resource for facilities working to prevent
Healthcare Associated Infections, or H-A-Is. In this session,
you will learn to navigate through the N-H-S-N application. The application
requires no special software and there is no charge for participation.
If you are logging on for the first time, this is the home screen.
The blue navigation ribbon on the left side of the screen lists all of the
application’s tabs. Let’s review the most frequently used tabs.
We begin with reporting plans. You will find the Reporting Plan button
in the blue navigation ribbon. Facilities add a reporting plan every month.
This tells N-H-S-N the type of data to expect from your facility.
Select Add. Select the different modules to report
by making check marks. If you want to find an old reporting plan,
click "Find” and search by entering the date and month.
Reviewing old plans will show you the type of reporting responsibilities in place
for that particular month. Next we will review the Event tab.
You can add, find, and select incomplete events. To enter a
new event, click on the Event tab and then click Add.
The red asterisks indicate required fields. For the Patient ID field,
we recommend using the patient’s medical record number. You can use
any number for the secondary I-D. By using the medical record number
as the primary patient identifier, N-H-S-N can see multiple events
for the same patient and link them together. If you are entering an event
and the patient is a Medicare beneficiary, enter the Medicare beneficiary number
on each event. Next, we review the Procedures’ tab.
Procedures may be submitted manually or by download.
To download you can use the import and export tab. For example,
if you are following Surgical Site Infections, or S-S-Is,
you need to add a Denominator for Procedure Form for each qualifying procedure.
Select the Procedure option and follow through the application.
One of the larger input fields is Summary Data. There are several
options under this tab. Here, you have device-associated options
for I-C-U and other locations, neonatal intensive care, S-C-A,
and M-D-R-O and C-D-I prevention.
Let’s start with selecting Device-associated for I-C-U.
The application asks for a particular location code.
It could be your emergency room, I-C-U, or any
mapped location for your facility. Scroll to the appropriate selection.
Next, select the month. If you are adding a neonatal intensive care
unit, select Add under Summary Data and then scroll down to
Neonatal Intensive Care. Here’s what you’ll get.
If you are adding the M-D-R-O module, click Add under
Summary Data and scroll down to M-D-R-O.
Here is your independent summary data screen. All of these must be
entered each month, based on your monthly reporting plan.
The Analysis tab is used frequently for running reports. Select
Output Options. If you want to see everything that’s available,
select the Expand All button. There are many options.
The easiest way to confirm your data is to select the specific module
you are interested in reviewing. In this example,
let’s look at central line associated B-S-Is. There are defined
outputs, line listings, rate charts, and run charts.
Here are your S-I-Rs that are available; you can run the
standard report or you can modify the time-frame. Note there
are specific C-M-S reports available for every facility. If you
are an acute care facility, open the Acute Care Hospital tab.
Next, select the CDC-defined output folder and you’ll see the specific
S-I-R reports that are run on a quarterly basis on your behalf
and forwarded to C-M-S.
You can only run these C-M-S reports on a quarterly basis.
They cannot be run monthly.
However, all the analysis reports above the C-M-S reports folder
are available monthly.
Next, let’s look at the Facility tab.
If you want to review your facility and the information that’s available,
select the Facility tab and then select Locations.
This record will give you all the locations that are mapped for your facility.
We encourage all facilities to review locations at least annually
to ensure that they are still serving the scope of service they were originally mapped for.
Alerts is the final tab we’ll review.
If N-H-S-N does not get data as expected, you will receive alerts.
The Alert tab identifies incomplete items that should be in your reports.
Click on Alerts in the blue navigation bar.
You can go across the top of the tabs to see exactly
what’s missing or what’s incomplete.
N-H-S-N reporting all starts with the monthly reporting plan.
Facilities must make a selection each month to indicate
what you will be reporting. The N-H-S-N application provides
facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify
problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and
ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections. While ensuring
data security, integrity, and confidentiality, N-H-S-N gives healthcare facilities
the ability to see their data in real-time and share that information
with clinicians and facility leadership. For more information
visit c-d-c-dot-gov-slash-n-h-s-n.
You can email questions to NHSN@c-d-c-dot-gov.