Providing You with the Resources to Promote Appropriate Antibiotic Use, Improve Patient Outcomes and Prevent Antibiotic Resistance

What's new

Welcome to the Nebraska ASAP website!  A number of tools and templates to facilitate establishment of an institutional antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) has been added to the site (see links below).  Regularly scheduled blog posts will be published to highlight news and studies related to antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial use.  Sign-up for free email alerts.

11/15/2019: A list of free educational webinars and activities hosted by national organizations are available for the upcoming Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 18-24).  Find out more by clicking here.

11/6/2019: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts signs proclamation to declaring November 18-24 as Antibiotic Awareness Week in Nebraska. Read about the signing here.

11/1/2019: A blog about the upcoming Antibiotic Awareness Week is now posted.  National and Nebraska outpatient antibiotic prescribing data has been updated to include data from 2017.

10/11/2019: A blog on the newly finalized Conditions for Participation (CoP) for hospitals and critical access hospitals from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as been posted. 

8/6/2019: All videos from the 2019 Nebraska Antimicrobial Stewardship Summit are now posted on the ASAP YouTube channel.  In addition, an educational document on piperacillin-tazobactam extended infusion is now available.

Educational Opportunity

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Resources developed by Nebraska ASAP are intended for non-commercial educational and quality improvement purposes.  Please acknowledge Nebraska ASAP when they are used.