Listen to HCPro's rebroadcast of our popular July 2007 audioconference
Sponsored by: Briefings on Patient Safety
presented on February 27, 2008
As many as 1.2 million U.S. hospital patients may be infected each year with a virulent staph infection that's resistant to antibiotics -- a rate almost 10 times greater than previous estimates. A study conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology also found that as many as 119,000 hospital patients each year may die from the tough-to-treat strain of bacterium, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
MRSA is the most prominent of the superbugs currently plaguing hospitals, and the control of MRSA is one of the six interventions featured in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Five Million Lives campaign. The Joint Commission recently announced that one of its proposed 2009 National Patient Safety Goals would focus on the prevention of MRSA, incorporating education for healthcare workers, patients, and their families, as well as the measurement and monitoring of infection rates. Does your hospital have what it takes to eliminate MRSA infections?
Prevent and reduce MRSA infections in hospitals
This rebroadcast of Eliminate MRSA Infections in Your Hospital: Proven Strategies and Success Stories presents our experts who explore practical and realistic ways to raise awareness and education about MRSA prevention in your facility. Learn from the stories of real hospitals that have successfully implemented prevention programs, and get tips you can implement right away.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this audioconference you will be able to:
- Recognize evidence-based precautions for preventing MRSA healthcare-associated infections
- Describe community-acquired and healthcare-associated MRSA
- Demonstrate the advantages of approaching MRSA infections primarily as a cultural problem, in addition to a knowledge and technical problem
- Implement use of data to achieve reductions in MRSA infection rates in their hospital
- Understand the importance of regional MRSA prevention efforts
AGENDA
- Taking simple precautions against MRSA
- Healthcare-associated and community-acquired MRSA
- Building a culture of hand hygiene
- Contact precautions
- Active surveillance
- Case study: Ohio State University Medical Center
- Developing "nurse champions"
- Dealing with a NICU outbreak
- Pros and cons of screening process
- Lessons learned
- Case study: Regional MRSA collaboratives
- Evidence-based precautions for eliminating healthcare-acquired MRSA infections
- Positive deviance - Implementing simple precautions in complex systems
- Measuring impact - MRSA surveillance system
- Question & Answer Session
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a helpful sample performance grid. These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
David L. Taylor, PhD, Infection Control Practitioner, Department of Clinical Epidemiology at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. David Taylor is a nationally known educator in infection control and microbiology. He is board certified in Medical and Public Health Microbiology. Dr. Taylor has served as the Director of a Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Laboratory. He has faculty appointments at the University of Dayton and Wright State University as well as faculty status for the Ohio Department of Health. Dr. Taylor has served as an Infection Control Practitioner at The Ohio State University Medical Center since 2000.
Jon C. Lloyd, MD, FACS, Pittsburgh Project Coordinator for a community-wide effort to eliminate endemic Methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA) in SW Pennsylvania. This work is supported by an interagency agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Veterans Administration Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS). Dr Lloyd also serves as MRSA Prevention Coordinator, VAPHS. He organized multiple region-wide work shops and forums for staff from 40 hospitals to work collaboratively on the problem of healthcare-acquired MRSA infections and facilitated the design of a MRSA surveillance system by infection control experts in Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is a Principal Investigator for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Plexus Institute project which supports an innovative approach to cultural transformation from within healthcare facilities focused on MRSA prevention.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Patient safety professionals, accreditation professionals, infection control professionals, nursing, risk managers.
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