[…] Eat Poop 3 What is: Hand Hygiene 100: Don’t Eat Poop 4 Gloves are a great barrier for: 200: Don’t Eat Poop 5 What is: icky stuff that you can see, (microorganisms can still f ind their way thru the tiny holes no gloves are 100% impermeable) 200: Don’t Eat Poop 6 When a client tells you they have been vomiting and had diarrhea you...
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Hand Hygiene One in every nine hospital patients in Canada contracts a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) 1. Each year, it is estimated that there are more than 220,000 cases of HAI in hospitals in Canada, resulting in at least 8,000 deaths. 2 At least 30% of HAIs can be prevented by following infection prevention and control strategies. 3 Imagine being able to help...
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Critical Appraisal – Where Do I Start? Joanne Archer RN Btech MA CIC Education and Practice Coordinator, PICNet An Introduction to the New PHAC Toolkit Why is Critical Appraisal of Studies Important? •Decisions are made based upon recommendations stemming from the studies • These decisions often have huge far reaching implications –Unintended consequences for patients and staff – Costs and resources – finite amount available –...
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Infection Prevention and Control in Correctional Settings Carolyn Herzig, MS, PhD(c) Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology Hosted by Nicole Kenny Virox Technologies Inc. www.webbertraining.com March 12, 2015 Learning objectives Review infection control challenges specific to correctional settings Discuss prevalence and transmission of common infectious diseases Identify strategies to prevent transmission...
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Critical Appraisal – Where Do I Start? Joanne Archer RN Btech MA CIC Education and Practice Coordinator, PICNet An Introduction to the New PHAC Toolkit Why is Critical Appraisal of Studies Important? Decisions are made based upon recommendations stemming from the studies These decisions often have huge far reaching implications Unintended consequences for patients and staff Costs and resources – finite amount available Reallocation of resources...
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[…] little as one air change per hour can result in a differene of $150-250 per year in heating and cooling costs for that room. Dr. Mermazadeh is the Director of Technical Services NIH. 3 Electrical Usage at Typical Hospital 4 Gas Consumption in a Typical Hospital 5 Levels of Risk Healthy person Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Diabetes Steroids Cancer - solid tumor HIV...
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FMT: Just another "crap" shoot? Ted Steiner, M.D. 2016 PICNet meeting March 4, 2016 CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE SLIDE In the past 2 years I have been an employee of: In the past 2 years I have been a consultant of: Cubist, Merck, Pendopharm In the past 2 years I have held investments in the following pharmaceutical organizations, medical devices companies or communications firms: <mark...
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Infection Prevention and Control with Accreditation Canada Qmentum Program Chingiz Amirov MSc-QIPS, MPH, CIC Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Baycrest Health Sciences Hosted by Julie Langlois Accreditation Canada Sponsored by www.gojo.com www.webbertraining.com April 28, 2017 Outline Accreditation in CCC/Rehab/LTC The study of " Getting Ready " Evidence beyond the guidelines Tips & pointers 2 What is accreditation? " An ongoing process of assessing your...
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Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course 2015 What’s New in Number Two?: An update on pediatric acute gastroenteritis David Goldfarb BC Children’s Hospital/UBC March 2 nd , 2017 Disclosure • Faculty : Dr. David Goldfarb • Relationships with commercial interests: – Nothing to disclose • Research funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, CIHR, Grand Challenges Canada, CDC Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,...
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SAFETY AND RESILIENCE March 9, 2017 PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN Carolyn Canfield independent citizen-patient UBC Honorary lecturer DISCLOSURES bias competing interests financial conflicts Nick Francis 1929 - 2008 Patient safety is a system experience Patient harm is a patient experience if you want to know about harm, you’ve got to ask the patient ADAPTED FROM James Reason ’s Swiss Cheese model of accident causation...
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U SING U LTRAVIOLET LIGHT FOR SURFACE DIS INFECTION EA Bryce MD Division of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Research Biomerieux , Te c k O BJECTIVES Describe how UVC light works Discuss UVC strategies to reduce HAIs Review the evidence that support use of UVC to reduce HAIs 1 2 3 • Risk of an ARO increases...
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[…] _____________ Hospital: ________________Unit: __________________ Form Number: __ of ____ Date (MM/DD/YY): ____/____/____ Start Time (hh:mm): ___:___ am pm End Time (hh:mm): ___:___ am pm 18 SPOT Tool Testing Face validity, feasibility, usability and inter-rater reliability Incorporation of feedback into tool design simplify instructions add/eliminate items adjust number of observations 19 AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Measures HCW...
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What makes infection prevention and control work? Julie Storr Director and Consultant, S3 Global, Contracted by World Health Organization Live broadcast from Infection Prevention 2017 www.webbertraining.com September 18, 2017 WHO (2016) Core components of IPC programmes at the national and acute health care facility level WHO (2016) Core components of IPC programmes at the national and acute health care facility level WHO (2016) Core components...
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AHEAD: Behavioral science framework for infection prevention Prof. Dr. med. Hugo Sax Dr. phil. Lauren Clack University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland www.webbertraining.com August 13, 2020 Hosted by Martin Kiernan martin@webbertraining.com About us 13.08.2020 Clack & Sax | Webber Training | 2 Healthcare associated infections 13.08.2020 Clack & Sax | Webber Training | 35-55 % are preventable Schreiber PW, Sax H, Wolfensberger A, Clack L, Kuster SP. The preventable...
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The 2020 COVID-19 journey and its impact on New Zealand Dr. Ian Town Chief Science Advisor M inistry of Health Hosted by Jane Barnett jane@webbertraining.com www.webbertraining.com February 17, 2021 First media statement 6 th January 2020 " The Ministry of Health is aware of some cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause being reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. We are monitoring the...
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Jesse Cooper, MSc (OEH) Manager, People Safety, VCH Manager, Quality and Patient Safety, VCH Manager, PPE Testing Laboratory, VCH Establishment of an ISO -Accredited PPE Testing Laboratory During a Global Pandemic Provincial Infection Control Network Lunch and Learn Series 2 021 Titus Wong MD, MHSc , FRCPC Regional Medical Director, I nfection Prevention and Control, VCH Division of Medical Microbiology and I nfection Prevention, VCH Co -Medical Director, Provincial...
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Past, present & futurePeter HoffmanConsultant Clinical ScientistPublic Health England/UK Health Security Agencywww.ips.uk.net/conferencewww.webbertraining.comLive broadcast from the Infection Prevention Society Conference 2021September 29, 2021 The Ayliffelecture, IPS 2021 Past, present & future?•How things were•Where we are now•Speculation on the future and a personal view of what problems will continue to keep us interested•Tra d i t i o n a l c u rs e : "May you...
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THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF TEMPORARY SINGLE-PATIENT ROOMS TO REDUCE THE RISK OF HAI Nicholas Graves, PhD www.webbertraining.com September 14, 2022 Hosted by Jane Barnett jane@webbertraining.com 2 Objectives: - Introduce the principles of cost effectiveness as applied to infection prevention initiatives - Review some key papers on the topic - Present findings of recent studies on the cost-effectiveness of using temporary single-patient rooms in...
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Influenza: What can we expect? www.webbertraining.com September 15, 2022 Dr. Rodney E. Rohde Texas State University Hosted by Clare Barry This illustration captured in 2013, is a negative stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image captured some of the ultrastructural details exhibited by the new influenza A (H7N9) virus. This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. See...
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