Mini Infection Prevention Bootcamp for Jefferson County Long-Term Care Facilities

Date:  April 16, 2025

Time: 08:30 AM – 12:45 PM

Location: Western Health Center

Address: 631 Bessemer Super Hwy, Birmingham AL 

CEUs: Nursing CEs pending.

Cost: Free, but seating is limited, and registration is required. Seats are available on a first-come first-serve basis. 

Registration:  Please register by Friday, April 11, 2025.

Questions: Please contact Riley Blum, reblum@uab.edu, 205-996-6610.

Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide healthcare professionals in LTCFs with the knowledge and tools to manage a multidisciplinary infection prevention program within their facility. The attendees will learn about infection prevention practices and recommendations for detecting, testing, and reporting reportable diseases and conditions in Alabama, C. Auris investigations, environmental hygiene, prevention of urinary tract infection in LTCF residents, and transmission-based precautions with enhanced barrier precautions.

Course Objectives:

  • Discuss who should report, how to report, and when to report Reportable Diseases and Conditions.
  • Identify the role of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) through environmental surface disinfection
  • Identify the risk factors, signs and symptoms and infection prevention strategies related to Urinary Tract Infections
  •  Discuss the Types of Transmission- Based precautions and when they are implemented 

Agenda

TOPICLengthTimeSpeakers
Check-In5 min8:30 am – 8:35 amRoslyn Richardson, RN, BSN, CIC
Opening Remarks10 min8:35 am – 8:45 amTameka M. Hines, DNP
Detect, Test, and Reporting

45 min8:45 am – 9:30 amMelissa Nelson, MPH
JCDH Disease Intervention Program Supervisor
Candida Auris Investigation15 min9:30 am – 9:45 amLyTasha Crum, MPH
JCDH Disease Intervention Program Supervisor
Infection Prevention & Environmental Hygiene50 min9:45 am – 10:35 amAnne Osuji, RN, MSN, CIC
Break10 min10:35 am – 10:45 am
Urinary Tract Infection Prevention in LTCF50 min10:45 am – 11:35 amRafeal Norton RN, MSN, Th.D
TBP with Focus on Enhanced Barrier Precautions50 min11:35 am – 12:25 pmShoshannah Anderson RN, BSN, CIC
Closing and Evaluations10 min12:25 pm – 12:35 pmTameka Hines, DNP

Jefferson County (April 16, 2025) IP Bootcamp LTC Registration Form
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If you would like to receive Nursing or Nursing Home Administrator CEUs for this event, please check the boxes below. A certificate of participation will be provided to all participants.
Help us save time at registration by sending us your nursing license number before the bootcamp. If you do not have it now, please email arcipc@uab.edu with the information prior to the boot camp or bring your nursing license number with you. Nursing CEUs will be added by our CEU provider.
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