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Assessing Your Infection Prevention Program, Two-Part Series (W5025)

All sessions are from 10 a.m.-noon.

Part 1: June 25

Part 2: June 26

This webinar is complimentary for all GHA members. Registration includes access to a recording of the presentation in the GHA Learning Academy and continuing education contact hours as noted below. The fee is $590 for non-members.

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Course Curriculum

This series will review the components of an effective infection prevention program and connect the dots among program planning, implementation, and patient outcomes. Our speaker will discuss the annual evaluation, risk assessment, and program plan, including methods to evaluate your data, set priorities, and engage stakeholders. Attendees will also learn about the important roles of construction, renovation, cleaning, and disinfecting in preventing infections. 

Speaker

Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC   

Linda Greene has extensive experience in infection prevention in acute care, long-term care, and ambulatory surgery settings. She held leadership roles in her local APIC chapter before becoming a member of the APIC Board of Directors in 2010. She served as secretary of the APIC Board in 2012-2013 and as 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 as an advisor and contributor to APIC position papers and implementation guides, APIC representative to the 2020 CDC Decennial Steering Committee, and frequent presenter at regional, national, and international conferences. In 2020, APIC awarded her with the prestigious Carole DeMille award which is given annually to an IP with visionary leadership and extraordinary contributions to the profession.

The speaker has no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this presentation.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

Part One:

Discuss how to conduct a risk assessment. 
Describe the differences among the annual risk assessment, targeted risk assessments and the construction and renovation risk assessment and identify how each is used. 
List various methods to identify infection prevention priorities.

Part Two:

Discuss the basics of cleaning and disinfection. 
Identify techniques to enhance education for environmental service personnel. 
Examine the use of checklists to conduct environmental rounds.

Continuing Education Credits

The Georgia Hospital Association Research & Education Foundation is an approved provider of nursing home administrator credits as a professional trade association in long term care under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 393-13-.02, (1) (a). Each session of the series is approved for 2 contact hours or a total of 4 contact hours for the series.

By attending Assessing Your Infection Prevention Program, Two-Part Webinar Series offered by Georgia Hospital Association, participants may earn up to 4 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. Attendees who wish to have the hours applied toward ACHE Qualifying Education credit must self-report their participation by logging into their MyACHE account and selecting ACHE Qualifying Education Credit.