Hot Topics is Healthcare Associated Infections
11/13/10 (S)
Instructor: MaryAnn Bordner, RN, MS, CIC
Time: 9:00am-4;30pm
Location: Penn State Abington @ 611
http://www.abington.psu.edu/psasite/ce/611/index.html
Program Cost: $150
Credit:
CEU-0.6
SW-0.6
RN-Pending
NHA-Pending
Description and outline
The course will cover the epidemiology, routes of transmission, prevention and treatment, and role of isolation for important bacterial and viral infections facing health-care workers today.
Basics of disease transmission and prevention
• Steps in infection transmission
• General guidelines for prevention
o Use of immunoglobulins
o Role of vaccines
o Isolation and personal protective equipment
o Hand hygiene
Infections of the Respiratory Tract
• Respiratory Viral Infections
• New and Novel viruses
• Tuberculosis
• Role of Droplet and Airborne Isolation
• Surgical masks versus respirators (N-95 and PAPRs)
Gastro-intestinal (GI) Infections
• Bacterial: Giardia, C difficile
• Viral: Norovirus, Rotavirus
• Vaccines available for GI infections
• Role of isolation to prevent transmission
• Environmental cleaning issues
Multiply Drug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
• Major MDROs: MRSA,VISA, VRSA, VRE, ESBLs, CREs
• Role of the environment in transmission
• Role of isolation to prevent transmission
• Environmental cleaning issues