Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care / Basics of Infection Control Webinar CD-ROM Set

Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care and Basics of Infection Control  Webinar CD-ROM Set, combines two of the most comprehensive resources on infection control for today's long-term care facilities.

Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care: A Comprehensive Resource Manual
Linda Spaulding, RNC, CIC

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Basics of Infection Control: How Our Policies and Procedures Will Work For You
Presented by Linda Spaulding; sponsored by the publishers of Long-Term Living Magazine

Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care: A Comprehensive Resource Manual
		Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care is designed to help you develop policies and procedures to create a sustainable and effective infection control program in your healthcare facility. The guidebook seeks to address all of the major issues that every program should tackle, but you are encouraged to customize its contents to suit your hospital or nursing facility's specific needs.

Major Topics Include:

• Getting your infection control and prevention program started
• Orienting your new hires and volunteers
• Understanding isolation practices: respiratory hygiene, cough etiquette, and the three categories of transmission-based precautions
• Creating a bloodborne pathogen exposure control plan that complies with OSHA regulations
• Developing a suitable tuberculosis control plan for your facility
• Instituting comprehensive policies for all residents: immunizing and decontaminating them
• Disposing of or storing infectious waste
• Formulating an annual employee health review program
• Reacting to an outbreak: identifying and investigating the causes
• Addressing bioterrorism: how to prepare for and respond to an anthrax threat or influenza pandemic

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Basics of Infection Control: How Our Policies and Procedures Will Work For You
		This webinar provides an overview of not only respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette, but also the three categories of transmission-based precautions.  These precautions cover the use of Standard Precautions in conjunction with Contract Transmission, Droplet Transmission and Airborne Transmission.  We will review policies that comply with the latest CDC Isolation Guidelines, as well as review a policy for Recreational Therapy that will give LTCF guidance related to residents going to activities who may be ill.  Tips will be provided on how to prevent, control and/or stop a scabies outbreak.  The webinar will end with a short synopsis of other policies in the Infection Control Manual that can improve and strengthen your infection control program.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss how compliance with policies and procedures can decrease infection rates.
• Describe the various types of isolation and what each type initials.
• List when residents should not attend recreation therapy.
• Reduce the transmission of scabies.

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Linda Spaulding, RNC, CIC

Linda Spaulding has had a long career as an RN in acute-care hospital settings. Her interest in infection control began in 1992, and she has run her own Infection Control consulting business, InCo and Associates, for the past 15 years.  She serves as a nurse consultant to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, physician's offices, prisons, airlines, fire departments and other local state and private businesses and industries. Ms. Spaulding's areas of expertise include all aspects of infection control and all licensing requirements mandated by agencies such as CMS, JCAHO, and OSHA.  

Ms. Spaulding has been interviewed frequently on local Honolulu TV, and in local newspapers and medical magazines on subjects such as flu outbreaks, infection control practices, handwashing, Norovirus, avian influenza and the threats of biological terrorism.  She was awarded the 2003 National Educator of the Year Award by Infection Control Today magazine.  

She has developed and lectured in a variety of educational programs and has published numerous articles in medical journals. Currently, she is working with a hospital in Florida and many long-term care facilities to develop an Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management Program. Ms. Spaulding works closely with the State Department of Health and the CDC, and she is actively involved in the Hawaii, Florida and national APIC associations. She has served as President, Vice-President, Secretary and Education Chairperson for APIC-Hawaii.  Most recently, she participated in rewriting the APIC Professional Standards for Infection Control Practitioners, which is scheduled for publication later this year.
 


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Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: INFECTION CONTROL & PREVENTION

CHAPTER 2: NEW HIRE ORIENTATION

CHAPTER 3: ISOLATION PRACTICES

CHAPTER 4: BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS EXPOSURE CONTROL

CHAPTER 5: TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PLAN

CHAPTER 6: RESIDENT CARE PRACTICES

CHAPTER 7: WASTE MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 8: EMPLOYEE HEALTH

CHAPTER 9: DEPARTMENTAL POLICIES & PROCEDURES

CHAPTER 10: OUTBREAK INVESTIGATIONS

CHAPTER 11: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

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