Mini Infection Prevention Bootcamp for Etowah County, Alabama Regional Long- Term Care Facilities
Date: April 11, 2024
Time: 8:00AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Etowah County Health Department
Address: 709 E Broad St, Gadsden AL, 35903
CEUs:
The Deep South Center for OH&S is an approved provider of continuing education units for nurses by the AL Board of Nursing (Provider ABNP0420 Expiration Date 12/16/2026) and has awarded this program 3.6 ABN, 3.0 SW, .3 CEU’s.
The Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators has reviewed and approved the seminar entitled “Mini Infection Prevention Bootcamp for North Alabama Regional Long-Term Care Facilities in Jefferson County” for 3.5 hours of continuing education credit for licensed nursing home administrators in the State of Alabama.
Cost: Free, but seating is limited and registration is required. Seats are available on a first come first serve basis.
Registration: Registration is required by April 8, 2024.
Questions: Please contact Tessa Graham, tessaegr@uab.edu, (205) 934-6953.
Course Purpose: This course is aimed towards infection prevention and control healthcare professionals in the Long-Term Care Facility setting, located in the Northeastern and some parts of East Central Alabama Region (includes the following Alabama counties at a minimum: Calhoun, Blount, St. Clair, DeKalb, Talladega, Clay, Shelby, Cherokee, Randolph, Etowah, Coosa, Tallapoosa and Chambers. The purpose of this course is to provide healthcare professionals in LTCFs with the knowledge and tools to run a competent and inclusive infection control program within their facility. The attendees will learn about the importance of reporting outbreaks to the ADPH, hand hygiene, environmental services, surveillance for infections as well as following infection prevention strategies while administering medications. The attendees will also be provided with a better understanding of the General Infection Control Assessment Response and how this can benefit their facilities.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the role of Infection Prevention and Control in Long-Term Care settings
- Verbalize 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
- Discuss implications of poor specimen collection in Long-Term Care Nursing Facilities and the positive impact of Antimicrobial Steward.
- Demonstrate how to use Glo-Germ in their facility.
- Discuss the difference in Loeb and McGeer Criteria as they apply to surveillance in LTCF.
- Identify the functions and responsibilities of the nurse/medication tech during medication pass as related to infection control procedures.
Agenda:
AGENDA
| TOPIC | Length | Time | Speakers |
| Check-In | 15 min | 8:00-8:15 | Anne Osuji and Becky McKinney |
| Opening Comments | 15 min | 8:15-8:30 | Anne Osuji, RN, MSN, CIC |
| Detect, Test, Reporting | 60 min | 8:30-9:30 | Lori Loyd, RN District Investigator for the Department of Emerging and Infectious Disease |
| Infection Prevention and Environmental Hygiene | 50 min | 9:30-10:30 | Anne Osuji, RN, MSN, CIC |
| Glo-Germ Exercise | 15 min | 10:30-10:45 | Shoshannah Anderson |
| Break | 15 min | 10:45-11:00 | |
| Antimicrobial Stewardship and Proper Specimen Collection. | 50 min | 11:00-11:30 | Shoshannah Anderson, BSN, RN, CIC |
| Infection Surveillance in Long-Term Care Facilities | 50 min | 11:30-12:30 | Becky Mckinney, BSN, RN |
| Closing and Evaluations | 12:30 |
Presentations (All Combined, Please click on the linked header below to download the PDF document.)
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