[…] and what youâd like to see next year! Join our Community of Practice If you havenât already, you can sign up to join our Community of Practice at www.picnet.ca/join . You can receive infection control newsletters, notification of education opportunities, and more . Thank you for attending our conference; we hope to see you again next year! 6 3 Jocelyn Srigley MD, MSc, FRCPC Clinical Assistant...
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[…] lift buttons,etc.)Before sitting at a desk or space (when touching the face is more likely)Before eating with fingersAfter using the toiletBefore touching the faceCRITICAL TIMES FOR HAND WASHING OR HAND SANITIZING INCLUDE39Sanitisingstations –how to encourage usageHAND HYGIENE IS A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY –WE NEED TO MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING40 2/7/2411•Messaging•Face covering –COP branded•Personal hand sanitizer•Personal pack of...
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On July 5, after a year of intensive training culminating in exams he passed, English springer spaniel Angus will be introduced at Vancouver General Hospital as Canada’s first, and the world’s only current C. difficile hunter. He succeeds the world’s first C. diff sniffer, a beagle in the Netherlands named Cliff, who has retired. Angus uses his scent-tracking abilities to find toxins in...
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[…] August 23 concluded that most nosocomial cases involved patient-to-patient infection, facilitated by overcrowding in the emergency room and breaches in compliance with infection control measures among patients, visitors and healthcare workers. For more information: http://www.emro.who.int/surveillance-forecasting-response/surveillance- news/who-mission-on-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-merscov-in-saudi-arabia.html. This past week, the WHO confirmed a third nosocomial outbreak in Saudi Arabia, this time in the holy city of...
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Two new updates today on Zika virus: Portable Zika test Researchers have created a portable test that can show whether someone has been infected with the Zika virus, even in remote areas far from a hospital or lab. In a study published Friday in the journal Cell, a group of scientists led by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at...
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[…] inappropriate glove use by healthcare personnel. Based on information from such studies, infection prevention staff and educators should develop training programs using adult learning principles and evidence-based instructional methods to improve glove use. Read the full news article on Infection Control Today (there is a 14-second ad first) You can read a similar news article without the...
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Gloves, Hand Hygiene and You You will touch someone’s life today… Do it with clean hands S N E A C O N T A C T P R E C A U T I O N S E S X A R R E I W N V P E S P H L V H X P L O V S D E M Y N S...
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Page 1 of 2 PICNet PROVINCIAL INFECTION CONTROL NETWORK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA A program of the Provincial Health Services Authority PICNet May Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together! PICNet communications - sign up to continue receiving! PICNet is cleaning up its contacts database, so if you'd like to continue to receive infection control news, requests to review documents, Webber notifications, etc., then make sure you update...
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[…] Journal, 204(10), 553- 554. 8. Leahy, A.L. (2008). Medical tourism: the impact of travel to foreign countries for healthcare. Surgeon, 6(5), 260-261. 9. CMA calls for national solution to medical tourism. (2007, February 7). CBC News. 10. Howze, K.S. (2007). Medical tourism symptom or cure? Georgia Law Review, 41, 1013-1052. 11. Garcia-Altes, A. (2005). The development of health tourism services. Annals of Tourism Research, 32(1),...
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[…] management issues New York Cancer Hospital 1884 www.webbertraining.com December 4, 2014 Ed Krisiunas WNWN International Inc. Hosted by Paul Webber paul@webbertraining.com Ed Krisiunas, MT (ASCP), MPH WNWN International, Inc. PO Box 1164 Burlington, Connecticut 06013 USA 860-675-1217 860-675-1311(fax) 860-839-3993 (mobile) ekrisiunas@gmail.com ekrisiunas@wnwnintl.com SKYPE: boutiquewaste 2 Objectives: At the completion of the presentation, participants will have: 1. Knowledge of the historical perspective of health...
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[…] paul@webbertraining.com Objectives Discuss the importance of nurses’ engagement in evidence-based practice Provide tangible strategies to effectively engage nurses in evidence-based practice 2 My experiences Past Clinical nurse Current Teacher Mentor Researcher 3 3 4 Daily News, 2012 4 Pronovost P et al. N Engl J Med 2006;355:2725-32 . Importance of "WHY?" 5 5 Evidence can be Highly Influential 6 6 Best practices must...
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September 24, 2020 Joanne Archer’s retirement Sent on behalf of Tara Donovan, Network Director, Provincial Infection Control Network of British Columbia Hello everyone, On behalf of the Provincial Infection Control Network I am sharing bittersweet news, Joanne Archer, Education and Practice Coordinator for PICNet is retiring at the end of this year. In her own words, her role with PICNet combined with decades...
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[…] Pathways for Emerging Infections Wildlife contact Hunting Live animal markets and food handling Healthcare settings (infection control) 11 Copyright ©2004 by the National Academy of Sciences Hufnagel, L. et al. (2004) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 15124-15129 Global aviation network 1 2 Zoonoses in disease emergence 1407 human pathogens 58% are zoonotic 130 of the 177 recently emerged pathogens zoonotic (RR=2.0)...
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[…] forecasting trends before they emerge? Futures Studies - "Six pillars" Inayatullah 2008 Mapping the future " Futures triangle" Anticipating the future "Emerging issues analysis" Timing the future "Micro-, meso-, and macro-history" Deepening the future "Ca usal layers analysis" (CLA) Creating alternatives "Scenario planning" Transforming the future "Visioning", "Backcasting" 18 Commonly used techniques 1. Mapping the Future 19 20 https://<mark...
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[…] Accessed July 14, 2023. https://www.canada.ca/en/health -canada/services/environmental -workplace -health /reports - publications/climate -change -health/extreme -heat -events -guidelines -technical -guide -health -care -workers.html 2. World Health Organization (WHO). Heat and Health. 2018. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://www.who.int/ news - room/fact -sheets/detail/climate -change -heat -and -health 3. Health Canada. Acute Care During Extreme Heat: Recommendations and Information for Health Care Workers - Canada.ca. 2020. Accessed July 17,...
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[…] vaccine From Science News Daily: A research group involving the universities of Lancaster, Aston and Complutense in Madrid has applied ground-breaking computational techniques to design the vaccine. The researchers have devised two universal vaccines: a USA-specific vaccine with coverage of 95% of known US influenza strains, and a universal vaccine with coverage of 88% of known flu strains globally. Dr...
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[…] of program topics. If you would like to suggest any new/additional topics or speakers, you can email Joanne Archer. And don’t forget to save the date: the conference takes place March 9-10, 2017. Infection Control News There are several new stories on the PICNet news page, including that of Angus the C.difficile-hunting dog. PICNet Medical Co-Lead Dr. Elizabeth Bryce was...
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[…] Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology guidelines. The DDD is the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used for its main indication in adults. This statistical measure is used to standardize antimicrobial usage and allow international comparisons to be made. What’s new in the 2009 Report More detailed tables and figures are provi ded for antimicrobial classes whose...
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