[…] How do we make sure that patients and visitors never clean their hands? Strategy to Remove a Tough Barrier: Triz Whiteboard Educational Tools • Michael Grinder • Inventories • Planning Model Review of tools from today How to conduct an evaluation quickly and easily • Why do we use the word "failure"? • What does that word mean to us? • What feelings...
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Page 1 of 2 PICNet Educational Conference March 2-4, 2016 Hilton Vancouver Airport 5911 M inoru Boulevard, Richmond, BC Wednesday March 2, 2016: Pre-Conference Workshop Time Topic Presenter 8:00 â8:30 Registration and Breakfast 8:30 â8:35 Welcome and Opening Remarks Joanne Archer 8:35 â10:20 Improving your communications Michael Grinder 10:20 â10:35 Health Break 10:35 â12:00 Improving your communications Michael Grinder 12:00 â12:45 Lunch 12:45 â2:30 Educating your staff Eleanor Elston...
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[…] Equipment 23 Metrex = Power drop 13 Getinge Page 7 of 7 Shipping Label Template Please use these labels in addition to your courier’s label. You can fill in this PDF version, or download a Word document version from http://s.picnet.ca/shipping . Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel 7551 Westminster H ighway Richmond, BC V6X 1A3 Attn: Pia Schattner, C onference Manager Event: PICNet Conference March 9-10,...
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[…] PICNet Bruce Gamage, PICNet 9:00–10:30 Leadership Lessons Robyn Roscoe, BSc, PMP Director, Management and Administration, BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre Video unavailable 10:30–11:00 Health Break Exhibitors 11:00–12:00 CAUTI (catheter associated urinary tract infections) Robert Garcia, BS, MMT (ASCP), CIC Infection Control Preventionist sponsored by Sage Products Video 12:00–1:00 Lunch Exhibitors 1:00–2:00 Patient hand hygiene Jocelyn Srigley, MD, MSc, FRCPC Director of <mark...
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[…] in all healthcare settings where endoscopy is performed. The document empha sizes the essential elements required and methods to be used for the safe handling, transportation and biological de contamination of endoscopes and their re usable accessories. Definitions used are in accordance with the Canadian Standards Association (11) and the Public Health Agency of Canada Infection Prevention and...
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[…] in all healthcare settings where endoscopy is performed. The document empha sizes the essential elements required and methods to be used for the safe handling, transportation and biological de contamination of endoscopes and their re usable accessories. Definitions used are in accordance with the Canadian Standards Association (11) and the Public Health Agency of Canada Infection Prevention and...
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[…] treatable infections and injuries will kill once again. " David Cameron, Prime Minister, UK " The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, however, represents a serious threat to public health and the economy. " Barack Obama, President USA What’s the problem? 3 Rising threat from MDR-GNB % of all HAI caused by GNRs. Hidron et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2008;29:966-1011. Peleg &...
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[…] ! Guidelines " Who has a full set of IPC nursing home guidelines including MDRO, … ! Training/Educa;on " basic training nurses/helpers, elderly-care MDs*, IPC-contact-nurses 3 Zhiqiu et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;36:759 (Rochester, USA) 4 Zhiqiu et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;36:759 (Rochester, USA) NHs tend to follow voluntary infec;on control guidelines only if doing so does not require...
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[…] the latest report to find that healthcare providers rarely perform stethoscope hygiene between patient encounters, despite its importance for infection prevention. Infection control guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that re- usable medical equipment, such as stethoscopes, must undergo disinfection between patients. “Stethoscopes are used repeatedly throughout the day and become contaminated after each patient exposure, so <mark...
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[…] site of the Phase 1 trial to test its safety on humans, researchers were overwhelmed with volunteers, many of whom said they wanted to do what they could to help fight the epidemic after seeing news reports about the crisis in West Africa. Even with the results of the 2015 vaccine trials in Guinea, there is more...
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[…] vehicle to promote antibiotic-resistant gene dissemination internationally”. This could help explain why resistant bacteria have been showing up in unexpected places around the world such as isolated caves and ancient permafrost. “Our study implies that long-term and repeated feeding with fishmeal may accelerate the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and even pathogens …,” the researchers wrote in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....
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[…] Conference, Winnipeg Upcoming Teleclasses Hand hygiene technologies 2005- 2014: are these interventions the missing link in hand hygiene compliance? July 24th, 2014, 10:30 am PST Speaker: Dr.Maryanne McGuckin and Mr. John Govennik, McGuckin Methods International, USA Infection prevention and control - the Argentina experience Date: August 14th, 2014 10:30 am PST Speaker: Carolina Giuffr, Buenos Aires British Hospital, Argentina You can view <mark...
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[…] Conference, Winnipeg Upcoming Teleclasses Hand hygiene technologies 2005- 2014: are these interventions the missing link in hand hygiene compliance? July 24th, 2014, 10:30 am PST Speaker: Dr.Maryanne McGuckin and Mr. John Govennik, McGuckin Methods International, USA Infection prevention and control - the Argentina experience Date: August 14th, 2014 10:30 am PST Speaker: Carolina Giuffr, Buenos Aires British Hospital, Argentina You can view <mark...
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[…] Hosted by Dr. Walter Zingg Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève Sponsored by WHO Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care OUTLINE Background /Study Components Infection Preventionist perspectives Epidemiologist perspectives State HAI Coordinator perspectives Consumer websites usability Consumer awareness, engagement, and intent © MCGUCKIN METHODS INTERNATIONAL, INC. WWW.MCGUCKINMETHODS.COM 2 BACKGROUND Little is known about the extent to which the public actually knows...
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[…] al. Prevalence and risk factors for asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriage. Clin Infect Dis 2014;59(2):216-22 American Practitioners in Infection Control and Epidemiology. http://www.apic.org/For-Consumers/Monthly-alerts-for-consumers/Article?id=cre-the-nightmare-bacteria . Accessed November 2, 2014 American Practitioners in Infection Control and Epidemiology. http://www.apic.org/For-Media/ News-Releases/Article?id=2122443e-6d22-46ae-aecc-e9512e98e1cb Accessed November 10, 2014 Barker J, Jones MV. The potential spread of infection caused by aerosol contamination of surfaces after flushing a domestic toilet. J...
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[…] the patient as, "I am X." The patient is not only affected, the doctor , as the messenger , is contaminated – the very relationship needed for recovery is jeopardized. Major Shift D elivering negative news without eye contact changes the level that the recipient receives the volatility. For i nstance, after the doctor thanks the patient...
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[…] 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 remind us that infectious disease threats...
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[…] to be modified to keep up to date with current technologies, provincial and federal legislation, and to best meet the needs of the CoP. As requested by the CoP, PICNet has been posting to its news page more frequently. In addition, the Webber Teleclas s pages were updated to make it easier to search the archived teleclasses , and to access...
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[…] available on the PICNet website, while work continued on two other projects, the Provincial Infection Control Framework and the All Hazards Training. PICNet also posted provincial information to two issues related to outbreaks in the USA: the reprocessing of duodenoscopes used for ERCP, and Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with 3T Heater -Cooler Systems. Finally, PICNet provided advice to the...
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[…] Accessed March 23, 2022. https://www.canada.ca/en/public -health/services/diseases/2019 -novel -coronavirus -infection/health - professionals/main -modes -transmission.html#shr -pg0 4. World Health Organization (WHO). Coronavirus disease (COVID -19): How is it transmitted? December 23, 2021. Accessed March 23, 2022. https://www.who.int/ news -room/questions -and -answers/item/coronavirus -disease - covid -19 -how -is-it-transmitted 5. US Cente rs for Disease Control and Prevention. Scientific Brief: SARS -CoV -2 Transmission May 7, 2021. Accessed...
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