Applying Microbiology to Infection Control Best Practices (Audio Conference)

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by Fighting the Superbugs: Applying Microbiology to Infection Control Best Practice

presented on February 8, 2007

Your staff has heard how improper hand hygiene practices and the misuse of personal protective equipment can spread infectious diseases, including methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)—but why aren't they taking proper precautions?

Maybe it’s because they don't fully understand the science of infection control. If your staff knew more about how germs develop and how they spread, they’d be more likely to wash their hands, wear proper personal protective equipment, and better communicate with families about keeping a lid on healthcare-associated infections—one of the biggest problems in healthcare today.

Improve your clinical operations by listening to this 90-minute refresher course on microbiology, including a 30 minute Q&A. There could be no better time for this audioconference: multidrug-resistant-organisms have driven up morbidity and mortality rates in acute and long-term care facilities to the point where some infection control professionals are saying certain pathogens are uncontrollable. We’ve chosen two expert speakers—each with a frontline knowledge of the infection control challenges you face everyday—to offer strategies for The Joint Commission-accredited facilities to create and implement emergency response drills as it relates to the revised Environment of Care standard EC.4.20 and pandemics. This will include an introduction to the most common infectious disease threats and treatment methods, a discussion of how disease emergence will affect infection control practices, and best practices for infection control.

BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET:

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools, including:

1. Example of contact precautions sign
2. Ideas/flyers for hand hygiene programs
3. Ideas for environmental disinfection products
4. Educational sheet for families and patients
5. Hand hygiene tool
6. Illustrated poster for housekeeping (in Spanish also)

Program materials will be provided prior to the program date via e-mail with PDF links. Please download the PDF files before the day of the program.

At the conclusion of this audioconference, participants will be able to:

1. Describe three of the community risk groups acquiring methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
2. Illustrate the signs and symptoms of a gastrointestinal infection with E. coli O157:H7
3. Define the common environmental sources for C. diff in healthcare settings
4. Demonstrate infection control measures used to prevent the spread of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in healthcare settings
5. Identify three common sources in the environment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Participants listening to this audioconference should already have a basic understanding of microbiology, beginning clinical experience in infection control, and knowledge of the trends in emerging infectious diseases.

AGENDA

1. Problems as they exist right now
1. Germ types
   1. MRSA
   2. Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species
   3. Acinetobacter baumannii
   4. Clostridium difficile
   5. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
   6. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
2. Concerns from the front line
1. Trends—i.e., news relating to infectious spread
2. CDC guidelines/isolation precautions
3. Other regulatory issues, i.e., mandatory reporting?
4. Challenges of best practices
2. Microbiology
1. E-coli, MRSA, C-diff, Spegilis
2. Chain of infection
3. The microbiologica chain of infection
4. Chain of infection
5. How to break chain of infection
3. How to set up a plan
4. Real life scenarios
1. C-diff
2. Education: what we need to do
5. Management
1. Patient advocacy
2. Brochure pre-screening
3. Mandatory reporting
6. Open forum
7. Q & A

FACULTY

Dianne E. Connolly, RN, BSN, M.Ed, has extensive experience in critical care, public health and senior adult nursing. This past summer her article “Implementing a Multidisciplinary Program to Reduce the Transmission of CDAD” was published in APIC’s national newsletter, Infection Connection. She has worked in the Infection Control area since 2001.

Maureen Spencer, RN, M.Ed, CIC, is certified in infection control and hospital epidemiology and currently is employed as the Infection Control Manager at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Ma.  She previously directed the infection control program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN

Nurses, infection control professionals, physicians, microbiology lab technologists, rehabilitation therapists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, hospital safety officers, home health aids, certified nursing assistants

Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Audio Conferences

Departments :

• Other Safety Products

ORDER CLASS: S_02-08-2007
SOURCE CODE: EHCM