2024 Quality and Patient Safety for Aspiring IP Leaders Series
- Registration Closed
1 IPU per webinar in the series
Topics Include: Creating a Revenue Generating Infection Control Program, enhancing Partnerships Between Infection Prevention and Public Health and much more!
Continuing Education (CE) Credit:
IPUs
- APIC designates this activity for 1 infection prevention unit(s).
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Contains 1 Component(s) Recorded On: 09/04/2024
Two infection preventionists (IP) will highlight their role on CORHA and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration in the prevention and control of HAI/AR outbreaks... As council members, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) representatives bring expertise in infection prevention, environmental factors, and HAI/AR reporting.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 @ 1 pm ET
Linda Greene RN, BS, MPS, CIC, FAPIC and Mary Alice Lavin MJ, BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
The COVID pandemic, healthcare outbreaks and concern for antibiotic resistant organisms, highlight the importance of public health and healthcare facilities collaborating effectively to protect patients and prevent harms related to healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens (AR). The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens (COHRA): works to improve practices and policies at the local, state, and national levels for the detection, investigation, reporting, control, and prevention of HAI/AR outbreaks across the healthcare continuum. Two infection preventionists (IP) will highlight their role on CORHA and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration in the prevention and control of HAI/AR outbreaks... As council members, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) representatives bring expertise in infection prevention, environmental factors, and HAI/AR reporting. Examples of the collaborative work will be presented including the role of APIC members in advancing the crucial role of front -line IPs working collaboratively with their public health colleagues, as well as mechanisms to improve and communicate this crucial role.
Linda Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC, a-IPC
Infection Preventionist and Independent Infection Prevention Consultant
University of Rochester, Highland Hospital
Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPICLinda Greene has over 30 years' experience in Infection Prevention. She has served in many leadership roles in infection prevention. Most recently she was the Director of Infection Prevention, at the University of Rochester Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York. In May of 2022, she retired from her full-time position and is currently an infection prevention consultant for acute and long-term care. She continues to support Highland Hospital on a Per Diem basis. She has extensive experience in Infection Prevention in the acute care, long-term care, and ambulatory surgery settings. She held leadership roles in her local Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) chapter before becoming a member of the APIC Board of Directors in 2010. She served as National APIC president in 2017. Greene was also president of the board for APIC Consulting Services in 2015, and she continues to serve APIC and the IPC profession in myriad ways, including as an advisor and contributor to APIC position papers and implementation guides, APIC representative to the 2020 CDC Decennial Steering, Committee, faculty for APIC courses and as a consultant for APIC consulting. She is a frequent presenter at regional, national, and international conferences. Linda serves as National Faculty for several national HAI reduction projects. She has served on several advisory panels on public reporting of HAIs, and has received several awards in infection prevention, leadership, and nursing. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters. Test disclosure
Mary Alice Lavin MJ, BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Consultant
Mary Alice Lavin has 40 years of experience in infection prevention and control working in a variety of settings as well as an infection prevention and control consultant. She has worked collaboratively for 23 years with the local and state health departments in the prevention and control of communicable diseases in healthcare organizations.
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Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 08/22/2024
The proposed presentation will present the development process and implementation of electronic healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) review (deep dive) tools.
IPU: 0
Thursday, August 22, 2024 @ 1 pm ET
Caldwell A. Lewin MSN-IPC, RN, CIC, CPHQ and Tracey R.. Odachowski MSN, BA, RN, CIC, CCRN-K, NE-BCThis proposal surrounds the optimization of data management through electronic methods. The proposed presentation will present the development process and implementation of electronic healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) review (deep dive) tools. Through the development of these tools, our multi-hospital organization has been able to streamline the HAI investigation process and quickly identify organizational trends and opportunities for improvement in our prevention efforts. We will share the two-year journey of this process with the lessons learned and the currently developed electronic investigation tools, and our strategy for maintaining a single repository. We will also discuss how we present our HAI trends across the system for individual facility and organizational events maintained in real-time. This process has significantly increased facility and corporate awareness of HAI events and improved the engagement and buy-in in supporting prevention efforts. The targeted audience is infection prevention teams looking to strengthen participation across their organization with the HAI review process and save time in tracking and reporting trends. Additionally, this process has significantly increased multidisciplinary engagement in infection prevention.
Tracey R.. Odachowski MSN, BA, RN, CIC, CCRN-K, NE-BC
System Director of Infection Prevention
Sentara Health
Tracey Odachowski, MSN, BA, RN,CIC, CCRN-K, NE-BC, is the System Director of Infection Prevention for SentaraHealth in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. She earned her BA inBiology from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, her BSN from Johns HopkinsUniversity and MSN in Health Systems Management from Vanderbilt University.Tracey has been a nurse since 1999 with experience primarily in cardiothoracicsurgery and general critical care. She served as a unit manager for 10 yearsand has been in Infection Prevention and Control since 2020. She holds nationalcertifications in Infection Control, Critical Care and Nursing Leadership. Sheis a past recipient of the Excellence in Patient Safety Award from VirginiansImproving Patient Care & Safety, Inc, and has a strong passion for patientsafety, effective leadership, and teamwork.