PICNet posts the Webber Teleclass schedule 1-2 months ahead; if you’d like to see the full year’s schedule, you can view it on the Webber Training website.
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INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL CHALLENGES AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS IN “OTHER” CONGREGATE LIVING SETTINGS
Date: May 23rd, 2024
Time: 10:30 am PST
Speaker: Barbara Shea, William Osler Health System, Canada
Objectives:
– Utilize real-life examples from the field to discuss approaches to IPC in varied settings and populations (shelters, group homes, assisted living, open youth and adult justice systems, supportive housing).
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THE EFFECT OF THE CLIMATE ON HEALTHCARE INFECTION
Date: June 20th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: Martin Kiernan, University of West London
Objectives:
– Understand the relationship between climate change and healthcare-associated infections and discuss how climate change can impact the prevalence and distribution of pathogens that cause healthcare-associated infections, such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria
– Identify populations and geographic regions that are particularly susceptible to climate-driven changes in healthcare-associated infection risks, including patients, healthcare workers, and communities
– Discuss the broader public health implications of climate-related healthcare-associated infections, including the potential for increased disease burden
– DIscuss climate-adaptive healthcare practices, including practical measures that can be implemented to adapt to the changing climate and reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections -
CBIC AND THE FUTURE OF IPC CERTIFICATION
Date: July 18th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: Jessica Dangles, Certification Board for Infection Prevention and Control
Objectives:
– Learn about CBIC’s advanced certification
– Discuss the creation of this portfolio-based assessment, its alignment with the APIC competency model
– Review a crosswalk between all CBIC exam offerings -
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION OF CATHETER ASSOCIATED BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS IN LOW AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Date: August 8th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: Prof. Victor D. Rosenthal, University of Miami, International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium
Objectives:
– The International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) has been providing training for healthcare workers since 1998 in low and middle-income countries to conduct surveillance and prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs). This presentation will cover the most common HAIs, including their microbiology, burden, risk factors, and the strategies implemented to prevent them. The goal is to discuss and highlight key insights in the field.
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SIMPLE QUESTION, COMPLEX ANSWER: DETERMINING THE DURATION OF CONTAGIOUSNESS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH COVID-19
Date: September 12th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: Prof. Yves Longtin, McGill University, Montreal
Objectives:
– Review the current knowledge regarding duration of infectivity of individuals with COVID-19
– Identify current knowledge gaps that influences current recommendations -
THE PHYSICS OF FLYING FECES
Date: September 19th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: James Gauthier, Webber Training
Objectives:
– List at least 5 common healthcare pathogens that can be present in feces
– Recognize common sources of fecal pathogens within our healthcare settings
– State at least two methods to limit the presence of fecal organisms within our healthcare settings -
RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PATIENT SAFETY CLIMATE, STANDARD PRECAUTION ADHERENCE, HEALTHCARE WORKER AND PATIENT OUTCOMES
Date: October 10th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: Prof. Amanda J. Hessels, Columbia University, School of Nursing
Objectives:
– Describe the importance and significance of the problem addressed
– Identify the study framework, aims, methods and procedures
– Identify at least two key relationships among patient safety climate, standard precaution adherence and adverse healthcare worker and patient outcomes
– Discuss strategies to translate findings into practice and policy implications -
LONGITUDINAL GENOMIC SURVEILLANCE TO TRACK PATHWAYS LEADING TO CLOSTRIDIODES DIFFICILE COLONIZATION AND INFECTION IN AN ICU
Date: October 17th, 2024
Time: 9:30 am PST
Speaker: Prof. Evan Snitkin, University of Michigan Medical School
Objectives:
– Learn how active surveillance and whole-genome sequencing can be used to understand pathways to colonization and infection in hospitals
– Learn about the relative impact of different pathways leading to Clostridioides difficile infection in an ICU population
– Consider the implications of study findings on strategies for prevention C. difficile infections in hospitals -
THE ART OF IV LINE CARE
Date: November 27th, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm PST
Speaker: Prof. Claire Rickard, The University of Queensland, Australia
Objectives:
– Review the concept of peripheral IV catheter associated infections
– Understand current evidence for infection prevention in IV catheters
– Review the policy context for making IV catheters safer
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