No, you don’t have to have 55 professional practice gaps for the 55 individual sessions of your regularly scheduled series. That’s not what you have to do. If you plan to use your 55 sessions, each as an individual opportunity to address an individual problem in your institution, fine, your choice, your decision.
But, what if you decided that you wanted to use half of those regularly scheduled series for infectious disease, to deal with the issues of hospital-acquired infection and the fact that 40 percent of your patients acquire an infection while in the hospital — and that’s the professional practice gap institutional level that you want to try to address through your varying sessions? And each of them is different, but it’s all linked back to that single professional practice gap. Some of it might be on hand washing, some might be on surgical technique, some might be on equipment processing inside your institution, some might be on how the lab works, interpretation of results. Each individual session could be addressing knowledge, or strategy for your professionals, or measuring and changing their individual performance. All of it can be linked back to the single professional practice gap of hospital-acquired infections and their role in it. And that way you can meet a whole institutional objective without continuously measuring individuals. Your choice, your options, your opportunities.
