Catalog Number : nad1747
Title : Safe Injection Practices
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 7-7-2011
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

Every hospital should have a safe injection practices policy and staff should be trained! Hospitals should be aware of the CDC requirements including that anesthesia should use single dose Propofol on only one patient and masks should be worn when inserting an epidural or spinal for pain relief in the OB area. Does your hospital clean glucometers between each patient?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has received a $50 million dollar grant to enforce infection control standards. Both CMS and the Joint Commission have a separate chapter on infection control. The standards require hospitals to monitor infection control issues. This area is being hit hard in the survey process.

Injected medicines are common in healthcare today. Injection safety or safe injection practices are measures taken to perform injections in an optimally safe manner for patients. Many hospitals and other facilities have just taken for granted that this was being performed appropriately but recent studies show this to be untrue.

This program is a must attend especially for all hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. This program will discuss all the cases where patients have been injured. It will cover the standards to follow including the CDC’s recommended practices. CMS has also issued a memo on safe injection practices. All hospitals and ASCs should have a policy on safe injection practices. It should include single and multi-dose vials and include the CDC recommendations.

The physicians and anesthesiologist involved in the Nevada cases have faced loss of licensure, malpractice litigation, survey visits by CMS, and criminal charges because of failing to follow safe injection practices!

Target Audience

• Infection preventionist
• Infection control committee members
• All nurses
• All Nursing Supervisors and Department Directors
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Anesthesiologist and CRNAs
• Nurse Educator
• Joint Commission Coordinator
• Performance Improvement Director
• Chief Medical Officer
• ASC staff
• Compliance Officer
• Regulatory Compliance Director
• Anyone involved with safe injection practices
• Pharmacist and pharmacy staff

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall that the CDC has ten recommendations for safe practices for injections
• Discuss how important infection control standards are in 2011 especially in light of the fact CMS has received a 50 million dollar to enforce infection control standards
• Describe the importance of making sure healthcare practitioners wear a mask when inserting an epidural or spinal
• Recall that the WHO has guidelines for safe injection practices

Webinar Agenda/Outline:

• CMS Memo on Safe Injection Practices
• Single and multi-dose vials
• Hospital and ASCs infection control violations
• Masks must be worn when doing LP or epidural for pain relief
• CDC Guidelines on Safe Injection Practices
  • CDC’s 10 recommendations for Safe Injection Practice
• CDC Guidelines for Isolation Practices
• Nevada ASC violations of Safe Injection Practices
  • Reuse of syringes
• CDC Resources on Safe Injection Practices
  • Contamination of multidose vials
  • 5 cases failure to wear mask when inserting epidural line
  • Catheter flushing in oncology clinic and 99 cases HCV
  • Accucheck/glucometer contamination
• Joint Commission standard
• CMS Infection Control Standards
• Unsafe injection practices as a never event
• WHO Guidelines for Safe Injection Practices
• Infusion Nursing Standard of Practice
• ASC Quality Collaborative Toolkit
• APIC and other recommendations to include in policy
• Cleaning of glucascan and blood glucose testing equipment
• All hospitals and ASCs should have a policy on safe injection practices

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.