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Session 3 | Best Practice Strategies for Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)
This session will provide a literature review of the best practice strategies for reducing HAIs through methods such as adherence to standard precautions and methods to improve hand hygiene compliance.
Target Audience
This course is designed for novice, beginner and newly competent staff working in IP. Anyone whose hospital is participating in the Compass HQIC program is eligible to participate.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between types of precautions based on the disease or condition
- Examine ways to decrease device-related infections such as CAUTI and CLABSI
- Identify the mode of transmission and pathogenesis of Clostridioides difficile
- Discuss recent literature regarding best practices to prevent HAIs
This session will provide a literature review of the best practice strategies for reducing HAIs through methods such as adherence to standard precautions and methods to improve hand hygiene compliance.
- Differentiate between types of precautions based on the disease or condition
- Examine ways to decrease device-related infections such as CAUTI and CLABSI
- Identify the mode of transmission and pathogenesis of Clostridioides difficile
- Discuss recent literature regarding best practices to prevent HAIs
LINDA R. GREENE
Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC, is Director of Infection Prevention at the University of Rochester Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York. She has extensive experience in infection prevention in the acute care, long-term care and ambulatory surgery settings. Greene held leadership roles in her local Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) chapter before becoming a member of the APIC Board of Directors. She served as APIC president in 2017. Greene serves APIC and the IPC profession in myriad ways, including as an advisor and contributor to APIC position papers and implementation guides. The author of dozens of peer-reviewed publications, she is an expert on quality improvement, antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare-associated infections.
2.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded for each live session in the webinar series by IHA, Iowa Board of Nursing Provider No. 4. Iowa nursing contact hours will not be issued unless your Iowa license number was provided at registration. For nursing contact hours to be offered, you must log in individually, your webinar sign-in and sign-out times will be verified. Partial credit for individual sessions will not be granted.