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Joyce Batcher. Executive nurse advisor, Dr. Batcher, will present a significant role in nurses' play in providing healthcare in a multitude of healthcare settings. Listen to some of today's key nurses who work and practice in academia settings and talk about the challenges they face in today's modern medical world.

So please welcome the host of All About Nursing, Dr. Joyce Batcher. Good evening. I'm your host, Dr.

Joyce Batcher, all about nursing and rely on the BBM Global Network in Tune Radio. I have two guests on the show this evening who are both very talented and working on an important topic that I believe relates to all of our listeners. We'll be discussing the need to educate the public about sepsis. It's a great example of how nurses are also impacting the health of the general population.

I will introduce our first guest now and then our second guest a little later in the show. So I'd like to begin with Dr. Thomas Abrams, who I would just share with you, has definitely been on a different sort of pathway as a nurse and is involved in activities that many of you may not think nurses are involved in. So I'm pretty excited about being able to showcase the kinds of things that he has done in his career.

So Dr. Thomas Abrams is the chief scientist and learning officer of Vivian Health, which is based in St. Louis. He has extensively published including by books and over 100 papers.

He's lectured both nationally and internationally on critical care topics. He's actually involved in technology application, particularly in terms of sepsis, he's a dynamic monitoring and capnography. He's been widely published in the application of technology to clinical practice. He's written a book called Hemodynamic Waveform Analysis.

It's been considered by many to be the finest clinical guide on this topic. His book, Essentials of Oxygenation, was an American Journal Nursing Book of the Year. He's also been awarded the 1999 Presidential Citation by the Society of Critical Medicine, and in 2004 was inducted into American Academy of Nursing. In 2006, Tom was selected as an Eddrunner by the American Academy of Nursing, which is designated for those people who are developing innovative solutions that eventually become mainstream solutions for his work that he's done with families of hospitalized patients.

From 2006 to 2008, he was the representative on the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Surviving Sepsis Campaign. In 2008, he was awarded the Flame of Excellence Award for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses for Sustain and Influential Work in Critical Care. You can tell by these terms of the awards that Tom has received, Eddrunner, Flame of Excellence. He's been very passionate and pushy in terms of making sure that the work he's leading continues to be understood by more.

Tom is also the co-founder of Vivin Health, which is an interactive web-based program designed to help the public develop safe health practices. Vivin Health's initial program is designed to prevent infections, cold and flu, which can lead to sepsis. Sepsis prevention is a key target, reducing the incidence of infections, and Vivin Health's goal is to reach the entire American public in order to create a culture of change for developing safer, more effective public behavior. When I was thinking about this, I thought the timing is just about perfect, because I know in two weeks kids go back to school here in Texas, and then I'm sure after labor day, across other parts of the country, children may be trained to school, and that's when they all get back together and start to trade their germs, and the illnesses become more prevalent.

So I'm delighted to have Tom on the show, and I'm going to start by just having you tell us a little bit about your career path, and Tom, because it's very interesting. Joyce is one of the people that I admire tremendously, and what she's done in her career, and I'm sure that's a whole other segment. But my career started in nursing 35 years or so ago, and actually one of my relatives, a cousin, and told me at the time that I wasn't certain what my major should be in college, and she was talking about how nurses are starting to do different things, like nurse practitioners. And so that was attractive, and I went into nursing, and I really just loved it.

One of the things that I learned early was I enjoyed the acute critical care area, and so I moved quickly into from floor nursing into the critical care area, and at the time it was really a burgeoning area in terms of new technology and things that currently we use routinely. Like you go into an outpatient setting, you see a pulse oximeter capnogre, and those weren't even available when I started. But I knew that that type of technology was going to be instrumental in helping people get better. And so what I started to do was just learn more about those technologies.

Today we have classes on those things, but back then it was much self-taught, but it was fun. And it was just a path that I thought was nursing gave me an opportunity to really almost know a profession. Especially when it got to be a clinical nurse specialist, because the freedom that we had in that job was wonderful. We were able to problem solve clinical issues on the floor and also for the organization, and we quite honestly I was able to grow so much faster than almost any other professional job would have let me do that.

But I knew early on that I wanted to get into research, and I knew to do that I would have to get a PhD. And so I knew that at some point, not too much longer after my career started, not only to have to go back to school and get my master's degree, I had to go back and get my doctorate. And it was one of the best decisions that I made. So I think that the career path that you look at a typical nurse, and I think this program is really good for this choice, is you don't have to certainly nurse and be restricted by traditional roles.

You can do almost anything. One of the things that I did is early in my career, I invented a portal trust training unit and got a patent on it, and now it was extremely complicated to build, but really didn't get to market. But it was one of the things that is advanced practice, or at the time of clinical specialists. I saw clinical issues and I could spend time trying to solve them, so that when we look at what a nurse does, the bedside is wonderful.

But a nurse also allows you to go beyond that. And that's what I think was fun that I did. We had a question. Yeah, thank you.

That's great. And we have been talking about how many people don't understand that nursing is pretty broad in terms of the kinds of roles we find ourselves in and the pathways that you can find yourself on. And I was curious when you decided to really move in to becoming more of a research scientist, what was it that really seemed to tell you that that was a direction to go? Yeah, I think that's another great question, Joyce.

When I was a clinical nurse specialist at Barnes, who was at Ospon St. Louis, I'd been doing that for about 17 years, and I loved it. I could have stayed doing that, but I was interested in doing more, and I wanted to do more formal research studies. And so the hospital was wonderful in terms of allowing me flexibility to do that.

And so they created some nurse scientist positions, and I was fortunate enough to get one of those, and then was able to do more formal research. And over the course, probably my career, I'm sure we obtained over a million dollars in grant funding to do various types of research, again, mostly in critical care. But the research scientist is an opportunity for advanced practice nurses who want to go beyond their current position. And I believe that this is the APN role, is a great stepping stone to become the research scientist.

The only limitation of being in the APN role is sometimes you're really tied into the day-to-day activities, and so you need the freedom to move beyond that. So if you're actually going to get into the research, research scientist role is way to go. And people learned very quickly that you can't do research a little bit. If you're really going to do research well, you've got to put significant effort into it, significant resources, and grant funding, you need to be able to obtain or funding from industry, but you need to be able to do that.

And that was one of the other reasons why a doctorate was necessary. I knew that early on. If I was going to be competing for grants or industry awards, a doctorate was really going to be critical. Well, this is all about nursing, and I'm Dr.

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You are listening to All About Nursing Live from the BBM Global Network and Tune In Radio. I'm Dr. Joyce Bachelor, the host of the show. Before the break, Tom was starting to tell us about why he became a research scientist and the passionate really drove him in that direction.

And I was curious if you could share with us how he was from something that obviously was extremely important. And I know if you're researched, I know that it's been very important. To move your career now into doing web-based simulation teaching, it's very entrepreneurial. So I was just curious if you could tell us how you can tell us about that.

It's a great question, Joyce. And I think many of us, including those who are listening to podcasts who are listening to the podcast, you'll see where this research aspect comes into play is when you look at, and I'll talk about more of this later, too, but I think this spot struck me. I was teaching an EKG course for who knows how many times, probably the 100th time. And I saw several people in the class who had to be in my class two other three other times.

And so I'm asking them why are they still in class? You know, repeatedly, they should have learned the information. And I'm just wondering if they should have learned that they should have learned that they should have learned. They should have learned the information.

And, you know, they enjoyed the class, but they did not really learn enough to apply it. And so it made me start to investigate the research behind how the best way to learn. And a lot of the research still needs to be expanded upon. So those of you who are interested in research on educational philosophies are theories that still have a lot to go a long way to go.

But the idea that the best way to learn, obviously, is something as simple as you have to involve people. And the more you involve them, and the less you try and lecture to them or have them do passive learning, the better you are. And so that made me get into simulation research and simulation teaching methods. And we have another company that Dr.

Patricia Benner and Dr. Pat Tierkeetus and I formed for professional nurses. I call not as expert. And that was an example of a way that we try and teach something beyond memorization.

How do you get someone to really know or develop clinical reasoning? And standard lecturing videos, things like that won't do that. You have to have people not only be engaged in their learning, but have the freedom to explore an environment and make decisions and learn from those decisions. And Joyce, I'm not certain the average age of your listener, but I'm getting older.

So when I went to nursing school, we had a ton of clinical practice. And when we graduated, we had taken assignments on the floor where we were the team leaders. But they don't get that now. And so the amount of clinical practice has dropped so much that a lot of new graduates struggle being practice ready.

And that was really a key stimulation for me to get into web-based simulation. I see that one of the areas that you've been really working on is related to sepsis. And I was just curious, why is sepsis such a strong interest to you and why do you think it's so important that nurses in general and the public in general know more about it? Yeah, this is actually ties in with the whole concept of tonight's program.

The web-based simulation teaching has to be expanded into the public arena. And your other guest tonight, Savannah Stark and the sepsis alliance will go over this as well. But when you look at what we, I'll just go over sepsis real briefly here, in that many people don't understand sepsis. If I were to ask your audience, can you pick something off the floor and eat it after you've dropped it?

You know, the five-second rule. People think, well, you can. And usually you can't. It's really safe because our immune system is so strong and so good that it kills almost any invader.

And so the ability of our immune system to protect ourselves is wonderful. But what sepsis is, it's when an infection starts and then the immune system reacts perhaps too aggressively. And without getting into a lecture on sepsis, sepsis will basically result from the candy for many infections. So if we're going to stop sepsis, we need to stop infections.

But if people look at how dangerous sepsis is, it's staggering. Sepsis is leading cost in hospitals. It's leading cause of death. And many times people are diagnosed with a condition like pneumonia when they're in the hospital.

It's really sepsis. And it's the immune system's response to that invader. And the response, like I mentioned, is usually aggressive. It's overprotective.

And instead of protecting the body, it actually can harm the body. And there's actually a quote from Louis Thomas from probably close to 40 years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine. And he says, we're more in danger because our immune system is so good. We're more in danger from our immune system than we are the invader.

And that's really one of the key things about sepsis is so important. It's incredibly dangerous when it occurs. And so how can we teach people to avoid it or not get it? Well, a lot of my career has been in teaching nurses and physicians and pharmacists about how do we treat sepsis.

And there is no real treatment. There's no drug that works on sepsis. We can give rapid antibiotics, which is incredibly important. We give adequate fluids, make sure the person be seen academically stable.

But we don't have a treatment for sepsis. And if you were to say there's one major health problem that's not funded properly, it's going to be sepsis. It will kill more people and savannah will go over this as well than almost any other disease condition. Breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, all combined won't kill as many people as sepsis will.

So it's still under recognized. It's much, much better than it was when we first, the surviving sepsis campaign, involved much better. But we still under recognize it. And what the charge I think is now and what we're going to be talking about in a little bit with good health is the goal is to get the public to know about this.

Because most cases of sepsis come in through the emergency department. And when people, the public think that infections in hospitals are dangerous, well, they can be. But most infections occur outside the hospital. And so they come into the emergency room with a severe infection that leads into, maybe already in the case of sepsis.

So the best way for us to stop sepsis is not to let it happen. That's why we want to teach the public on how to protect themselves. Well, this is a very extremely important topic and we'll be doing more dialogue around this. But we're coming to you live from BBM Global Network and Tune in Radio for All About Nursing.

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Joyce Bachelor in All About Nursing and we're live on the Beebeum Global Network in Tune & Radio. Before the break, Tom was telling us about the prevalence of sepsis and the number of lives that it costs us every single year as a problem that many people may not really be aware of. So I was just curious, as Tom, if you could just tell us, what is the best way to reduce the incidence of sepsis? You know, Joyce, the best way to reduce the incidence of sepsis is to watch out for infections.

You know, it's like, and we'll talk about a program we have a little bit, but think about how many ways that a disease could be transmitted. Now, keep in mind, it's really important to understand that most bacteria are not dangerous. They're beneficial. The vast mass majority of them.

But the few that are there, including the dangerous viruses, they can make you sick and they can cause an immune system reaction that's really potentially deadly. So what we want to do is stop any infection possible, and we need to teach the public how to do that. For example, if you meet somebody, is it best to shake their hand or do a fist bump? Well, if you want to avoid getting infection, it's better to do a fist bump.

But to see that happen, we need a culture change, and so we'll talk a little bit about that. But I think that the best way to stop an infection is to make sure people are stop sepsis, make sure they recognize an infection. And then here's what's really critical. If sepsis is very difficult to stop once it occurs, the one way we can help fight it is if we can recognize it early.

The early recognition of sepsis, I can't emphasize how important that is. So say that a person has pneumonia and they're not sad for a couple days, not getting better. And so you check their temperature and it's elevated, say it's 102, say that their heart rate's up a little bit, say it's 105, and the respiratory rate is elevated, say it's 24. Well, those are three signs of what are called systemic inflammatory response.

And what that indicates is the infection doesn't seem to be localized anymore. And now you have warning signs that might be more than just an pneumonia. A really dangerous sign would be if the person starts to act different, if their behavior changes. So most physicians and nurses know those symptoms, but the public doesn't.

And so we have to be able to teach the public about recognizing those symptoms early and getting in to see their primary care provider or go to emergency room. Because if we can get to it early, we have a chance of having a major impact on the severity of sepsis. So I think that this is probably what's been driving you then to push it. You have with your company called Vivian Health.

Can you tell us a bit more about how you're trying to address this, particularly with the public in general? Absolutely. Vivian Health, we formed that to address several health topics. But the first one, the most important one for us is sepsis prevention.

And to do that, though, what it really is, is about what we just talked about, is about infection prevention. So, for example, if we were to look at how can we help prevent infection in sepsis? Well, one really key point to keep in mind is we don't give more content. In other words, we don't need to tell you more about sepsis.

That's already out there in the public domain. The sepsis alliance that's that we'll talk about has great information on sepsis. People know they should wash their hands. People know they should clean, for example, a table that's been used by someone else ahead of time.

We know those things, but we don't do them. So what our program does and the reason it's different is we have people have to problem-solve in real situations. So if I were to ask you, what's a dirty or a bathroom or a restaurant table? Many people would pick a bathroom, but it's a good chance it's a table.

If you look at, in terms of what things might make somebody sick, and it's not that you shouldn't be clean in both of them, but in our program, you would have to solve that problem and then clean your hands, clean the table. And it's a way of engaging people hopefully in a fun way, but it really makes them think about where are you likely to get sick. So, give an example. You're going to go fill up your car with gas.

Is there anything dangerous there? Well, I can tell you that, but it's better for me to let you solve it. That's what the program does. So they have to go into general situations that they're going to see in real life.

You're in a cafe. You're in an airplane. How do you protect yourself? And you have to do it.

So that's really what we try and do. And here's our whole point, is that if we can stop infections, we'll slow down sepsis. But then the one other thing that we do with Vivint Health is we will have the user of the program recognize when an infection is not just an infection. When is it turning into something more dangerous like sepsis?

What the goal being is to have people recognize that if they do have an infection, if they have a cold or a flu, when should they really be worried about it? When should they absolutely go see their doctor? And when is it safe to stay home? And really it's based on recognizing when the body starts responding normally.

As you're talking to me, I'm thinking to myself that we're really bad about delaying care because this is nothing. It'll go away. I'm too busy. I don't have time to go to be seen.

And it's almost as if we're trying to educate around these symptoms like we did around chest pain and things not to ignore years ago. And I think this is really exciting work that you're doing. And you really are. He also heard you talk about how this really emphasizes engagement and learning.

And so it's different than just reading things. And so we'll chat more about that. We are coming live to you right now from BBM Global Network and Tune in Radio. This is all about nursing.

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It's really about engaging people in better ways of learning about the symptoms that they should be paying attention to to recognize sepsis. So why are you so focused, Tom, on the engagement and learning rather than some of the reading materials and other methodologies we've seen used in the past? I think that's a critical question, Joyce. The way of helping somebody change their behavior, it can be done by many ways.

But what we're trying to use is one of the more powerful ways, which is active engagement and active learning. So, like I mentioned, a lot of times we do as educators, we will give somebody a lecture, we'll give them reading material, maybe watch videos. But remember those things I'm saying, what is the learner doing during that time? They're listening, which is good.

But how do people really learn? It's by doing. So you wouldn't give a pilot a video in a book to read and expect them to be proficient. You wouldn't expect a nurse to have a lecture and watch videos and expect them to be proficient in nursing.

So why would we expect the public to do that? And so instead of telling a person they should wash their hands, put them in situations where they have to do it. And do it in a way that is engaging and try and make it fun. We have our program that's a little bit like a game, but it's not a game.

It's intended to help teach and help change behavior. So if someone wanted to learn about the pathophysiology of how hand-washing works, they can find that right now. That's information. You don't have to pay for it.

In our program, you really have to just hand-wash your hands in the appropriate instances. You have to do it correctly. And that's what we try and do. Take a complex topic and make it very, very simple.

But the engagement is really the critical part. And that's how we change behavior. That's awesome. So I was curious, is this a project that nurses could and should be seen as leaders in protecting the public from infections and sepsis?

I think this is right along the topic of your whole radio show, Joyce, is I think that this is one where nursing can be the leader. And it isn't that you don't want other allies or other groups to partner with you. But if we were to say in the year, you know, 2018, what should we be focusing on? Let's roll about prevention.

And nurses can take the active lead in that. So for example, in our program, we want nurses to take the leadership role in this. We would like nursing organizations to help move this forward. Because what nurses are good at is about teaching.

It's one of our key roles is to help educate the public. And this starts even in the hospital during discharge planning. And what Viv and Health is trying to do is actually move it so that the public doesn't even come in the hospital. Or if they do it's only the time when it's really necessary.

And I think this is where nurses should absolutely be involved. And I absolutely think that even schools of nursing could be involved in this. The idea being is if we're able to get hospitals and schools of nursing behind this, I think we could absolutely be the leaders in preventing infections and conditions like sepsis. So we know there's at least three and a half million nurses.

I do agree with you. There could be a huge impact that nursing can play. But how do you plan to reach everyone who could benefit from the program? And do you have partners who can help?

I think that's a great question. When you look at, so how do we reach everybody? Well, those three and a half million nurses certainly can be a major role in this. But we will need other partners.

And I think that natural partners would be hospitals. They would be business leaders. Certainly the major insurance companies would could be the deciding factor in making sure that we reach everybody. For example, when we're looking at Viv and Health and reach everybody, what our vision is, is let's see a group that's going to really benefit from this would be, for example, employers.

Because we can keep the employees healthy. What we'll be able to do is reduce absenteeism, reduce loss productivity. We actually believe that we can reduce infectious disease claims from that's measurable. So employers would be an obvious partner in this.

But to reach the employers, we're going to need some help. And I think that's again where groups like hospital associations can help us. Business leaders can help us. Insurance companies can help us.

And so that's really one of the challenges is to get these groups together, along with key nursing groups, to get this to everybody. But we can do it. It's a tough task, but there's no reason we can't do it. We want to give this program away free to schools, make sure all disadvantaged groups or high risk groups get this program.

And it's extremely inexpensive. So there's no reason we can't do this. It's actually very exciting to hear you talk about this, Tom, because it's also the right thing to do. And it seems like the washing of hands and some basics should not be hard for us to be role modeling consistently.

And so it's very exciting. Is there anything else that you wanted to share about what you're trying to do with the work that you're leading? Well, you know, one of the partners, and I think you'll get into this after the next break in Savannah, we'll talk about from the sepsis alliance, is what we want to do is work with groups like the sepsis alliance, who a nonprofit group trying to just help the public recognize conditions like sepsis. That's awesome.

That's awesome. That effort usually comes from a tragedy, and Savannah will be able to explain that in terms of their origins. Thank you Tom. We definitely want to work with other groups.

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Before the break, we were discussing a lot of the different innovations that Tom has been leading with a company called that is really trying to do a lot of public education around sepsis. What I would like to do now is introduce my second guest, who is Savannah Stark. Savannah began her work with the sepsis alliance in 2013. Since then, she has developed and implemented new sepsis alliance initiatives including the fundraising and events program.

Growing with the organization, her key roles are in major donor development, managing partnerships with hospitals, corporations and individuals, and managing the events and operations team in San Diego. Savannah brings organizational and communication skills to the sepsis alliance and possesses the skills necessary to fill many different roles. In addition to development and partnerships, Savannah works with the leadership team on big picture operations to help the organization succeed in its mission. Upon receiving her bachelor's of arts and journalism from the University of Cincinnati in 2012, Savannah moved to San Diego to further her career.

Outside the office, you can bind her at the gym, exploring the unique neighborhoods of San Diego, obsessing over her niece and convincing anyone who will listen to her that Cincinnati should be on the city's to visit list. I'm delighted to have you with us. I failed to mention that she is the director of development and partnerships for the sepsis alliance and just leading very, very exciting work. So welcome, Savannah.

I would like to begin by having you just tell us a little bit more about how the sepsis alliance got started. Okay, great. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

So that's a alliance was founded in 2007 by Dr. Carl Flyley after he lost his 23 year old daughter, Aaron, so that's it. So Aaron was perfectly healthy and was going to have what was supposed to be a simple outpatient procedure. And unfortunately, five days after surgery, she died of sepsis and so Carl, a retired dentist who was in the medical field, had never heard of sepsis and he couldn't believe that he lost his daughter or something that he had never heard of.

So Carl went looking for more information and defined resources. And he didn't really find an organization out there promoting that with awareness and so his mission was to make sure that no other parent or family had to experience with his family went through. And so that's a fine, but I said with on the end 2007 with a mission to save lives and keep suffering by raising awareness of the medical emergency. Wow, that's a kind of story that kind of hits you pretty close to home with people thinking that that could happen to one of their loved ones.

So can you share a little bit more about the kind of role that the sepsis alliance is taking in terms of working with others to raise the awareness. And others to raise the awareness around sepsis. Sure. Yeah, and like you said, it's very close to home.

It's just something that can happen to anyone. It can happen from any type of inspection. So, Justice Alliance is the leading deputy organization in the US and we do work in all 50 states with a number of advocates and partners and volunteers. We are a common to earlier nonprofit organization and our sepsis website receives more than two and a half million cities each year.

So we are providing support and education to both the public, you know, really trying to raise the public awareness of sepsis when the organization was founded only 19% of your adult could ever heard of sepsis and my fear that number was up to 58%. So we do an annual awareness survey to try to gauge what the awareness levels are among you as adults. So we should be another increase in this year. I believe I was also really and we also work with providers that we provide education and awareness for help providers as well.

Well, congratulations on seeing the kind of impact that you're having on something that's very, very important. So I was just curious. Why do you think it's important for nurses to know about sepsis? Well, it's important because 1.7 million people in the US are diagnosed with sepsis each year.

Annually, 270,000 people will die of sepsis in the US and that equates to one person every two minutes and commenting earlier sepsis is the leading cause of death in US hospitals. That's a leading cause of reading mission to the hospital among children. 75,000 children will develop sepsis each year and more children died sepsis in pediatric cancer. That's a pretty impactful statistic to hear 6,800 children.

So how does this sepsis alliance educate engage nurses and healthcare professionals? So one program and we're really excited about that. We launched this year in May because the end of May is the sepsis coordinator network. So the sepsis coordinator network is a community created by sepsis alliance to provide sepsis practice resources and guidance to sepsis coordinators and all health professionals across the country.

The sepsis coordinator network is led and was kind of developed by a team of expert leaders in the field of nursing with critical experience and caring for sepsis agents and developing and implementing sepsis protocols. The network is open to all healthcare professionals. So we know not every healthcare professional who is dedicated to the cause is necessarily a sepsis coordinator in their facility. So we open it up.

We have physicians, we have leadership, we have quality pharmacists. So all types of healthcare representation among the sepsis coordinator network. We actually have over 1,000 members already which really tells us that they need to be there for this type of network. The network has, you know, it's a webinar, educational webinar.

There is a peer to peer support forum so they can give advice and discuss best practices. They have access to a tool and resource inspection where there's free downloads for patient and staff education. So the sepsis coordinator network is a really exciting new program this year. We also have sepsis alliance has a webinar series called sepsis across the continuum of care.

And the webinar series is aimed at addressing sepsis education at some topic across the continuum of care. From critical care nurses to home care staff are upcoming webinars actually called enhancing recovery from sepsis and that will be on August 23rd. And finally, a new campaign we launched is called sepsis is about time and it's about time of a national initiative to raise awareness of sepsis and urgent needs to speak treatment when sepsis are recognized. So we developed a new easy to remember acronym for the symptoms of sepsis that reflects time to meet the T for temperature either higher or lower than normal.

I may have signed in symptoms of an infection and mental decline into you that could be sleepier difficult to allow and extremely ill. So we've heard many such survivors say that it was the worst thing they ever felt that they said I actually feel like I might die. So those are the four easy to remember symptoms that we think are great for public awareness and remembering to speak treatment, its urgent, safe, safety symptoms. That's great.

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That's pretty amazingly great to come up with that as a way to have it easily remembered. So Kudos to you and the organization. So sepsis awareness month is just around the corner in September. How can nurses get involved to help really spread the awareness of sepsis?

Because you're doing marvelous work. Thank you. I started for awareness month at a great time to heighten awareness in the U.S. facility and in the public.

We actually have an awesome Tepsis Awareness Month toolkit for healthcare professionals on our website. That can be found on sepsis.org. All of the resources I've discussed tonight can be found on sepsis.org. The toolkit online is a complete toolkit to help healthcare providers spread sepsis awareness in the facilities, communities and locations.

The toolkit includes a social media kit, infographics and printable handouts along with a number of additional resources. That's one great resource for everybody to check out. Another thing we have to end is Tepsis Awareness Month is Tepsis Awareness Super Zero Challenge. We really challenge everyone on September 29th to run a walk by swim or do any other activity to complete a mile to raise sepsis awareness.

We're really calling everyone to unite together towards the end of sepsis awareness month. It's a great group and team building activity that all staff at your facility can join. I would definitely recommend that as well. I think that you've got a great audience listening to you because I think that Tom's point earlier in yours, if you're a teacher, if you work in some kind of industry or some other setting where this could also be, information is to take it back to your employers or wherever you're working because I think this is such an amazing opportunity to make a difference.

Thank you so much for sharing all that, Savannah. So Tom, I would like to kind of come back to you to just ask you if you were to ask our listeners to take a message home from this show. What would it be? I think Joyce that combined with what I've said and what Savannah has brought up is that we really need to focus on helping educate the public and in a way that is really more powerful than it often would be traditionally do.

And you just mentioned it. If we're able to help the public recognize infections, not only reduce sepsis, but employers and insurers, he reduced healthcare costs, individuals will see their medical costs go down the program that we show actually will help people save money immediately, even on some basic things. If we can help people avoid infections and they're not going to spend money on cold and flu medicine, they won't get pneumonias as often, and they certainly won't get sepsis. And I think both Savannah mentioned that sepsis is the most expensive condition hospital C.

It's the most common reason people get readmitted to the hospital and over half of the readmissions come from new infections, so that means some is happening at home. So we have to help the public understand that sepsis is really related to infections, and if we used to sit and slow down infections, we have the chance to really make a difference. So that would be the big message I would want to send with everybody. Well, you've shared a lot of great information this evening.

I really appreciate both of you being on the show, and I'm hoping that our listeners are thinking, how can I take this information back to whatever setting they work in, whether they're a nurse or some other kind of professional or person in general? Because I think what's hit me tonight is, you know, this really is all ages, all social economic levels. And so it's a really wonderful work. I congratulate you for doing this, and I hope that you continue to have more and more success.

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