When supporting antibiotic stewardship, for which activities does the infection preventionist (IP) have primary responsibility?

Solution :

Antibiotic stewardship are defined as the effort to measure as well as to improve how the antibiotics are prescribed by the clinicians and are used by the patients. It protects the patients from the harms by improving antibiotics prescribing which is caused by the unnecessary use of the antibiotics.

infection preventionist are persons who is responsible to to make sure that the patients and the health care workers are free from infections and doing things to prevent getting infections.

Thus, when supporting the antibiotic stewardship, the responsibility of the  infection preventionist in the activities are :

1. Calculating the MDRO infection rates.

2. Calculating the MDRO incidence on basis of the clinical culture results

3. Detecting the asymptomatic carriers using an active surveillance cultures.

4. Using molecular typing for the investigation of any outbreaks.