[…] else, the Ebola crisis has shown us that healthcare workers have not hesitated to care for patients under the most dire of circumstances—they have given their all to meet the responsibility of their profession." http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141121/ NEWS/141129998 7 APHA Policy Statement " The cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the United States...
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[…] all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. As a hub organization, Pu blic Health Ontario links public health practitioners, front -line health workers and researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge from around the world. Public Health Ontario provides expert scientific and technical support relating to com municable <mark...
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[…] Settings guidance -Seasonal Influenza , 3 Infection Control Guideline for the Prevention of Healthcare -associated Pneumonia guideline, 4 and the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the health sector - Annex F, 5 along with the World Health Organizatio n’s guidance. 6 In addition to routine practices, patients suspected or confirmed to have nCoV...
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[…] S, Allen -Bridson K, Mor rell G, et al. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) report: data summary for 2006 through 2008, issued December 2009 . Am J Infect Control. 2009 ;37(10):783 -805. 163. Ellingson K. Breaking down P values and 95% confidence intervals: W hat infection preve ntionists should know about statistical certainty . Am J Infect Control. 2013 ;41(11):1083...
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[…] on the floor" – CDC What do transporters do in you facility when transporting patients with urinary catheters? style.visibility ppt_x ppt_y Emptying the Collection Bag Some institutions are using mostly kits with urimeters to avoid breaking seal When do you empty a urine collection bag? What is used to empty the urine collection bag? Emptying <mark...
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[…] 2 1.0 GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION OUTBREAK M ANAGEMENT ...
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Excerpted from: Outbreak News Today You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean…or wipe ….or swab a stethoscope? That’s the question raised by a new quality improvement project published in the July issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official journal of the Association for Professionals <mark...
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. To celebrate this theme of 2016’s National Infection Control Week, Infection Control Professionals: The Core of Infection Prevention and Control, all the BC Health Authorities are ran features or news stories about their IPAC. (Although we’d like to add that at PICNet, we believe everyone is at the core of infection prevention!)...
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[…] list of resources: Simple things clinicians can do to help reduce unnecessary antibiotic use / Choosing Wisely Canada Antibiotic (antimicrobial) resistance: fact sheets / Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Antibiotic resistance fact sheet / World Health Organization (WHO) I Use Antibiotics Responsibly Pledge / WHO ‘Antibiotics: Handle with care’ campaign video / WHO Recommendations for appropriate prescribing of antimicrobials / Bugs <mark...
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Toolkit with 20 Activities PICNet’s Infection Control Week Planning and Communications Toolkit has lots of great activity ideas that you can use throughout the year… not just for Infection Control Week! Download the document to read all 20 activity ideas. Download the 2018 Toolkit Here are just a few of them: Songs, Videos, and Flash...
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Education Websites Do Bugs Need Drugs? (Antibiotic Resistance) IPAC-Canada Education Resources WHO Infection Control Teleclasses WHO Global Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Kids Boost Immunity is a free online learning resource for Canadian students that pairs local learning with a global reward: vaccines for children in developing nations through UNICEF. Their sister site for adults is I Boost Immunity Educational Videos Click...
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[…] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University describe how the inexpensive test was able to rapidly detect the virus in blood samples taken from Zika-infected monkeys. The paper-based test, which can be freeze-dried and transported without refrigeration, would cost less than $1 per patient and deliver results within a few hours,...
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From Global News: Eight of nine children hospitalized in Washington state for a polio-like illness have a rare syndrome that causes varying degrees of limb weakness, state health officials confirmed on Friday. The eight cases from five counties in the state were determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be acute flaccid...
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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...
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Vancouver Coastal Health has produced a short video on glove removal and hand cream application. These techniques can help prevent dermatitis....
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[…] video on CTV.ca International team of researchers using computer modelling to develop universal flu 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...
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[…] as the document is ready. Thank you again for providing your input; the survey will result in more resources being posted to the PICNet website, our upcoming Education Day, and potentially some new initiatives. PICNet News Page The survey responses contained many requests for more frequent infection control news;...
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[…] to receive notifications and updates from PICNet on whichever of the following topics you are interested in: Educational Opportunities: Information on upcoming conferences, workshops, and new educational resources PICNet Newsletter: Periodic e-newsletter with infection control news, links to new resources, and updates on PICNet’s projects <mark...
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[…] new vaccine, Moore needed a lot of rhinoviruses. He also needed a lot of different types of rhinoviruses. So far, scientists have identified 160 types from people with colds. “We probably have one of the world’s biggest collections of kid snot,” said Gern. Out of his snot collection, Gern and his colleagues can isolate many different types of rhinoviruses. They can...
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