The death of Savita Halappanavar in University Hospital Galway in 2012 highlighted sepsis as a patient safety issue in urgent need of addressing. In 2014, Minister for health , Leo Varadkar published 3 sets of clinical guidelines dealing with patient safety issues, one being sepsis (Cullen, P.2014). The sepsis management clinical guidelines provide health care professionals with a diagnosis and treatment framework to be followed. It outlines the diagnostic criteria, a diagnostic tool (EWS), followed by the ISBAR communication tool, once the signs and symptoms are recognised screening for sepsis takes place. Once sepsis is confirmed, resuscitation and antibiotic treatment is commenced immediately as the first few hours are vital (Rosini and
