[…] and the Public Health Agency of Canada have recently raised an alert to an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) yeast, Candida auris (C. auris), that is causing potentially lethal, invasive infections in healthcare settings. Two countries have described healthcare outbreaks of C. auris, and analysis of these clusters suggest that C. auris is being transmitted within healthcare facilities. No cases have been identified in Canada, but we are asking...
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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 your settings by June...
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Page 1 of 2 PICNet November Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together! Upcoming registration/application dates: Quick-Reference Lanyard Cards order - Nov 20, 2013 PICNet Conference Early Bird discount - Dec 31, 2013 Education Resource Fund applications - Jan 13, 2014 Lanyard Cards - Ready to Order! PICNet's Infection Control Quick -Reference Cards are now ready to order! Based on your input, there are two different cards: Card A - Risk...
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[…] of West Africa, we would also like to remind and update you about several emerging respiratory viruses (ERV) with ongoing global monitoring since our last bulletin of June 17, 2014, including: 1. MERS-CoV. Activity has declined substantially relative to the dramatic surge that occurred in April 2014. However, sporadic cases continue to be reported from affected regions in the Middle East, including an imported MERS-CoV case reported...
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PICNet April Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together April 2015 Ebola Teleclass PICNet is hosting a teleclass on April 24, 2015 from 10:30-11:30 am PST on the topic of Ebola: Real- life details. Patrice Gordon is a Nurse Practitioner from BC who worked in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone in Nov/Dec 2014. She will share her insights into the disease and its clinical presentation. The slides and...
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[…] Date Provincial Infection Control Network of BC Vancouver, BC V6H 4B1 (select from drop-down) 1001 West Broadway, Suite 310 Visa Mastercard If paying by cheque, please make payable to: PICNet Residential Care Educational Visits 2016 Details about our residential care visits can be found on the PICNet website. Your job title Email address Alternate contact (if someone else will be arranging scheduling, logistics, etc.) Name (3-digit number...
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[…] Date Provincial Infection Control Network of BC Vancouver, BC V6H 4B1 (select from drop-down) 1001 West Broadway, Suite 310 Visa Mastercard If paying by cheque, please make payable to: PICNet Residential Care Educational Visits 2016 Details about our residential care visits can be found on the PICNet website. Your job title Email address Alternate contact (if someone else will be arranging scheduling, logistics, etc.) Name (3-digit number...
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PICNet July Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together July 2015 PICNet Education Day: Save the Date! One of the biggest areas of need you identified in our recent survey was finding the time, resources, and best methods to educate your staff in infection control. To help you with this, PICNet host an all-day, pre- conference workshop on March 2, 2016 on the topic of Education and Communication. The workshop will be...
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[…] advice given by your physician or other qualified health care professional. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care professional with any questions you may have. Never disregard medical advice or delay seeking medical advice because of something on this website. Information contained in this website or any websites to which a link is provided should be used only under the supervision of...
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Several Canadian and U.S. jurisdictions have reported active measles cases. For more details please refer to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Measles and Rubella Weekly Monitoring Reports and the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s report on measles cases and outbreaks. Based on current measles activity, we are recommending the following: Ensure health-care worker immunizations are up to date. Encourage patients to be up to date...
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[…] 1- 866-716 -8134. You can find directions to the hotel on PICNet’s web page . Exhibitor passport and door prizes To encourage traffic to the exhibitor tables, we will again be featuring the Exhibitor Passport: delegates must obtain a certain number of stamps from exhibitors in order to enter to enter our grand prize draw. If you would like to provide any door prizes , these are...
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Page 1 of 3 PICNet May Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together May 2017 New Infection Control Basics e -Learning Module The Infection Control Basics e -Learning module has been updated, and is now available on PHSA's Learning Hub! The new version consists of two separate modules: • Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Direct Clinical Care Providers • Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Healthcare Providers Not I nvolved in...
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[…] can visit, so be sure to book early if you’d like us to come! PICNet can visit your long-term care facility during mid-September to mid-November 2015. We can do a morning or an afternoon session (or two sessions, depending on your staffing schedule). We need a separate room, ideally with a large table that everyone can sit around, and we prefer to see the staff in groups of 8-20 people....
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[…] Please note, we can only visit facilities we have not visited before. PICNet can visit your long-term care facility during mid-September to mid-November 2015. We can do a morning or an afternoon session (or two sessions, depending on your staffing schedule). We need a separate room, ideally with a large table that everyone can sit around, and we prefer to see the staff in groups of 8-20 people....
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[…] visit facilities we have not visited in the past two years. PICNet can visit your long-term care facility during October and November 2017. We can do a morning or an afternoon session (or two sessions, depending on your staffing schedule). We need a separate room, ideally with a large table that everyone can sit around, and we prefer to see the staff in groups of 8-20 people....
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PICNet October Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together! October 2014 PICNet 2015 Calendars - order by November 17! PICNet's 2015 Infection Control Calendars are ready to order! Based on your feedback, we have switched to a calendar year format (Jan-Dec) for PICNet's Infection Control Calendar. The 2015 calendar will be sent to the printers mid -November, so we need to receive your orders by Nove mber 17th . Your first...
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[…] you will need to move anything into the main room, and we will coordinate this with the hotel. Exhibitor Passport To encourage traffic to the exhibitor tables, we will again be featuring the Exhibitor Passport: delegates must obtain a specified number of stamps from exhibitors in order to enter to win our grand prize. If you’d like to provide any runner-up prizes, we are always appreciative of this!...
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[…] PDF a very good summary table Immunization Schedules for adults, children, and infants (BCCDC) – PDF Information on each specific vaccine (HealthLinkBC) – web page Influenza Vaccinations A quadrivalent influenza vaccine fact sheet has been developed for health care providers. The live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) Q&A has also been updated. Information on Vaccine Safety Are Vaccines Safe? (PHAC) How Vaccines Work (ImmunizeBC) a great, concise summary...
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