Over 1,000 people, including 350 infants, may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the maternity wing of a hospital in California after an active case of the disease was diagnosed in a nurse, hospital officials said on Sunday. The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., said it was notified in mid-November that an employee who worked “in the area of the newborn...
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[…] with Increasing RSV Activity in BC During weeks 48-49 (November 27 to December 10, 2016), seasonal influenza activity was observed in BC. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity continued to increase during this period, notably at the BC Children’s and Women’s Health Centre Laboratory where over one-third of tests were RSV positive in weeks 48-49. At the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory, influenza positivity increased from 7% in...
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Attendees at the PICNet 2017 Educational Conference were treated to a visit by a special guest… Angus the C.diff dog! Angus’s handler Teresa Auberg brought him for a C.diff-hunting demonstration at the end of Dr. Bryce’s presentation. And soon Angus will have a colleague! (story below) Photos: Angus hunts… …and finds! VGH to add second C.diff-sniffing dog after Angus’s success Excerpted from The Vancouver Sun:...
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The Bugs & Drugs® resource is now available in a website format for BC users at the following link: www.bugsanddrugs.org. The website is available to users accessing the website from an IP address that is from anywhere in British Columbia. Users can access the website from their personal or work devices as long as they have internet connectivity. Bugs & Drugs®...
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Are you photohygienic? "Clean Shots" Photo Contest - enter by May 19 The Clean Shots contest has received lots of great photos, so the judges are going to have a tough time choosing the grand prize winner - but there's still time to submit more photos! As well as the grand prize of an iPad mini, there are also weekly random drawings for gift...
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[…] Vaccine HealthFile ✓ ✓ Rotavirus Vaccine HealthFile ✓ ✓ Influenza Vaccine HealthFile ✓ * (6 months -4 years) Hepatitis A ♦ Vaccine HealthFile ✓ ✓ ✓ ◘ ‡ Children with specific medical conditions that place them at high risk of disease should receive an additional dose at 6 months of age. See the vaccine HealthFile for more information or speak to your doctor or public health...
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Page 1 of 3 June 2013 BC Immunization Schedule Immunizations, also known as vaccinations, are important for people of all ages. They help your immune system recognize and quickly kill bacteria and viruses that can cause serious illness or death. Some immunizations are given in a single shot or oral dose, while others require several doses over a period of time. In B.C., immunizations ar e given by public...
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You will touch someone’s life today… Do it with clean hands Gloves, Hand Hygiene and You 1. I should clean my hands before and after the use of gloves. True/ False 2. Glove use provides complete protection for me against hand contamination. True/ False 3. Having clean and dry hands before putting on gloves helps the condition of my skin. True/ False 4. I can wash or re...
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You will touch someone’s life today… Do it with clean hands Gloves, Hand Hygiene and You 1. I should clean my hands before and after the use of gloves. True / False 2. Glove use provides complete protection for me against hand contamination. True/ False 3. Having clean and dry hands before putting on gloves helps the condition of my skin. True / False 4. I can wash...
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Are you photohygienic? "Clean Shots" Photo Contest - enter by May 19 The Clean Shots contest has received lots of great photos, so the judges are going to have a tough time choosing the grand prize winner - but there's still time to submit more photos! As well as the grand prize of an iPad mini, there are also weekly random drawings for gift...
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[…] i Table of Contents Module 7: Communicable Diseases ...
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PICNet Travel and Expense Claim Guidelines PICNet travel and expense claim guidelines adhere to the financial policies of the Provincial Health Services Authority. Please see the policy below for expense claim guidance. Please submit your PICNet Travel/Expense Claim along with original receipts to: PICNet Management Office Attn : Helen Evans, Communications Coordinator 555 West 12th Avenue Suite #400 East Tower, Room 413/414 Vancouver, BC V5Z 3X7 Questions:...
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PICNet November Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together November 2014 CPO Toolkit PICNet, in collaboration with the CPO Working Group, has created a CPO Toolkit to assist acute care facilities in the management of patients with CPO. This toolkit will be reviewed in one year and revised as further knowledge is learned about these emerging organi sms. You can download the toolkit from the PICNet website....
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Infection in Home Health Care – Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Challenges Jingjing Shang, PhD, RN, OCN Assistant Professor Columbia University, School of Nursing Hosted by Paul Webber paul@webbertraining.com www.webbertraining.com January 22, 2015 Objectives Review the literature on infection in home care setting Understand the prevalence and risk factors of infection in home care Discuss the challenges in developing infection surveillance in home care Analyze a potential approach...
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Page 1 of 3 PICNet August Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together August 2015 PICNet Survey Document: responses to your input In May/June 2015, PICNet conducted a Community of Practice survey. We have since been analyzing and discussing the results. Many of your concerns and suggestions will be brought forward to the September meeting of our Scientific Operations Advisory Committee. We have also created a Responses and Next Steps document...
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Page 1 of 2 PICNet September Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together September 2015 Residential Care Visits We still have spaces available for our October -November residential care visits, so we've extended the deadline to apply. If you're located in the Lower Mainland and would like us to bring our infection control workshop to your facility, you can read more about it and download the application from <mark...
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Hardware or software? Interventions for a sustainable infection control programme Joost Hopman, MD, DTMH Consultant Microbiologist, Head of Infection Control Unit Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands Senior Lecturer Community Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa International Ambassador Program Hosted by Claire Kilpatrick WHO Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit www.webbertraining.com September 22, 2016 Learning Objectives 1. Identify components of infrastructure that could be improved from IPC perspective 2....
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Adherence Engineering to Reduce Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections Frank A. Drews University of Utah IDEAS, VAMC Salt Lake City "Human error in medicine, and the adverse events which may follow, are problems of psychology and engineering not of medicine." John Senders, 1993 www.webbertraining.com September 29, 2016 Hosted by Dr. Hugo Sax University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland Human Factors Human Hardware Software Environment That field involving research into human psychological, social, physical and biological characteristics, maintaining the information obtained from that research, and working to apply that information with respect to the design, operation or use of products or systems for optimizing human performance, health, safety and / or habitability. 2 •Accidents Human Factors 3 Human Error –Human Error •60‐90% of causes in major accidents / incidents in complex systems are due to human error 4 •Accidents Human Factors 5 Field of Human Factors –Role of human factors •Breakdown in interaction between humans and system –Usually the systems work well •Provides diagnosis and solution Luckily, Phil's computer was equipped with an airbag and he was able to walk away from this system crash. 6 Field of Human Factors –Goals of Human Factors •Reduce error •Increase productivity •Enhance safety •Enhance comfort 7 –Applying Human Factors •Steps in the cycle of human factors...
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[…] Nations people Isobel McDonald RN BScN MEd Clinical Nurse Specialist, Public Health, First Nations Health Authority Shawana Buchholz RN MPH Clinical Nurse Educator Health Protection, First Nations Health Authority 11:15–12:00 Contact and disease transmission through the lens of fluid fragmentation Dr. Lydia Bourouiba Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor, The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12:00–1:00 Lunch Exhibitors 1:00–1:45 Fresh...
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