This study assists in closing the research-practice gap by using tailored, multifaceted implementation strategies to increase use of evidence-based nursing care for infection prevention practices.

wanted to learn more about their role in stewardship, and identified venues to receive this education. Nurses with master's degrees were less likely to believe that nurses might play a role in ASPs, perhaps due to greater familiarity with the current state of ASP, and perhaps, therefore, they were less likely to think "outside the box" regarding a nursing role. Nonetheless, most nurses felt that they played a role in antimicrobial stewardship. The strengths of this study include the large number of nursing respondents across different hospitals and patient care units. The study also has several limitations. The survey had a relatively low response rate, and because responses to the survey were voluntary, respondents may not be representative of all nurses at our hospital system. Similarly, responses obtained from nurses in our institution may not be generalizable among all nurses. This study illustrates a need to educate nurses on general principles of antimicrobial stewardship, and our findings point to multiple areas for nursing-targeted interventions that merit additional research. Nurses could ensure or facilitate acquisition of proper allergy histories, blood culture techniques, prioritization of antimicrobial administration, and antimicrobial de-escalation. Given the number of bedside nurses in practice, such interventions have the potential to substantially lower inappropriate antimicrobial utilization.

We reviewed the sustainability of a multifaceted intervention on catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in 3 intensive care units. During the 4-year postintervention period, we observed reductions in urine culture rates (from 80.9 to 47.5 per 1,000 patient days; P < .01), catheter utilization (from 0.68 to 0.58; P < .01), and CAUTI incidence rates (from 1.7 to 0.8 per 1,000 patient days; P = .16).