Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care Training Package

Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care Training Package

This comprehensive package on Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care, will guide you through the development of effective policies as well as provide expert guidance on two of the leading issues in infection control: MRSA and C. Diff. With these CDs and the Comprehensive Manual , you can provide your staff with practical training that will help you ensure that non-community acquired infections don't destroy your bottom line.



This package includes:

1. Infection Control & Prevention in Long-Term Care: A Comprehensive Resource Manual
   By Linda Spaulding, RNC, CIC
   
   
2. 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
   
   
3. Managing Infection Control in LTC Facilities CD-ROM Training Program
   Presented byLinda Spaulding and Jolaine Hao
   Sponsored by the publishers of Long-Term Living Magazine
   
   
4. Challenges of Clostridium Difficile in Long Term Care
   Presented byL. Clifford McDonald, M.D., Acting Chief, Prevention and Response Branch (Proposed) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   Sponsored by the publishers of Long-Term Living Magazine
   
   
5. MRSA in Long Term Care: Practical Strategies for Detection and Management from the CDC
   Presented byDr. John A. Jernigan, Dr. Mary-Claire Roghmann, Dr. Roghmann, and Dr. Carolyn Gould

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 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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Managing Infection Control in LTC Facilities CD-ROM Training Program
		Infection control has always been an important concern for long-term care facilities, but never more so than today. Residents are admitted sicker, frailer, and more vulnerable to infection, while treatment is encountering increasingly drug-resistant microbial strains. Some experts have speculated the battle has been lost in some facilities to MRSA. Futhermore, external threats are growing and now include the much-anticipated bird flu. Facility staff must be trained and coordinated to meet these new life-threatening challenges. In this presentation, award-winning infection control educator Linda Spaulding, RNC, CIC and associate Jolaine Hao, RN, review the modern requirements for infection control in the long-term care setting.

Training Objectives

After this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Understand the changing role of infection control in long-term care.
• Identify the difference between colonization and infection and its relevance to management.
• List various old and new antibiotic-resistant organisms being seen in long-term care.
• Maintain accurate infection control statistics and report them appropriately.
• Discuss how avian influenza (bird flu) may impact the long-term care facility.
• 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
Jolaine Hao. RN

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Challenges of Clostridium Difficile in Long Term Care
		You've heard about this pathogen in the news and perhaps have seen it affecting patients in your facility—but this bug is moving quickly from nuisance status to being a condition that can lead to major complications or even death. Dr. Clifford McDonald of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides an overview of how Clostridium difficile causes disease, how it is diagnosed, and how it is transmitted between patients. He stresses that this is an issue nursing homes and long term care facilities will have to grapple with on several levels: nursing, environmental servies, infection control and pharmacy. Dr. McDonald discusses how the disease is becoming more common and more severe, which has led to a new epidemic strain of C. difficile. The most important risk factor for developing C. difficile-associated disease (CDAD) is antimicrobial use, making careful use of antibiotics in your facilities more critical than ever. Although these drugs are essential in the care of many patients, overuse is common and an important CDAD control strategy is to reduce unnecessary antimicrobial use. Because this organism produces spores, preventing transmission can be difficult; C. difficile may persist in the environment and requires special measures to prevent contamination of healthcare workers hands and special environmental cleaning strategies. And with a five-fold increase in risk for those over 65 and an overall 20% rate of reoccurence, this is a problem you need to be planning for—not reacting to—in your facility.

Presentation Objectives

Participants in this training program will be able to:

• Understand the causes of C. difficile and how it is transmitted
• Show how C. difficile is changing and creating greater infection control challenges
• Identify the risk factors for developing C. difficile associated disease (CDAD)
• Apply proper prevention strategies in the long-term care environment
  

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MRSA in Long Term Care: Practical Strategies for Detection and Management from the CDC
		MRSAhas been in the news lately. The problems it creates are well known to healthcare workers but now public awareness is making it a priority issue. What do you need to do in the long-term care setting to detect, prevent and manage MRSA? What are the strategies your infection control staff should be using today? In this one-hour training program, MRSA experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with an expert from the Maryland VA Health System, discuss the latest research and best practical strategies that long-term care facilities can use against this dangerous pathogen.

Training Objectives

Participants will:

• Understand the causes of MRSA and how it is transmitted.
• Show how MRSA is creating greater infection control challenges.
• Identify the risk factors for developing MRSA.
• Discuss the merits of current tests for MRSA.
• Apply proper prevention strategies in the long-term care environment.

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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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Jolaine Hao is a RN with experience in numerous areas of nursing. Ms Hao has worked in both Long-Term Care and Acute Nursing settings. Most recently Ms Hao has worked as an Infection Control Coordinator and Employee Health Nurse with responsibility of a 192 bed Long-Term Care/Sub-Acute Hospital with >300 employees.

Jolaine has worked closely with administration in developing and implementing Quality Assurance Programs, Risk Management issues and hospital-wide education programs. She has also worked on special projects with Corporate Compliance, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and sentinel events.

Ms. Hao is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She is currently completing her master's degree in organizational management.

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L. Clifford McDonald, M.D.
Acting Chief
Prevention and Response Branch (Proposed)
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Dr. McDonald graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Michigan State and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of South Alabama, following which he completed a fellowship in Medical Microbiology at Duke University. Dr. McDonald is currently a Medical Epidemiologist and the Acting Chief of the Prevention and Response Branch in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC.



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