Phone
(319) 626-2302
Catalog Number : ngd1571
Title : CMS Infection Control Worksheet and Proposed Changes
Speaker : Sue Dill
Webplay Recording Date : 5-1-2017
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing
Webinar Overview:
If there is one webinar your hospital should listen to this year it would be this one. If a surveyor showed up at your door tomorrow would you be prepared? The worksheet is used for all validation surveys and certification surveys. This webinar will also discuss the proposed infection control standards.
Target Audience
Infection Control Nurse or Coordinator (infection control professionals, now called Infection Preventionists by APIC and CMS), Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Nurse Educator, Hospital Epidemiologists, Infection control committee, All nurses and Nurse Managers, PI Director, Joint Commission Coordinator, All Nursing Supervisors and Department Directors, Anesthesiologist and CRNAs, physicians, Risk Manager, Senior leadership, Pharmacists, Board members, Lab Director, Patient Safety Officer, Compliance Officer, Dietician, Maintenance Director and staff, Housekeeping (Environmental Services), OR Manager and OR staff, Anyone with direct patient care and anyone interested or responsible for infection control.
Webinar Objectives:
- discuss that CMS has a final infection control worksheet
- recall that the infection control worksheet has a tracer on indwelling urinary catheters
- describe what CMS requires for safe injection practices and sharps safety
- recall that the infection control worksheet has a section on the hand hygiene tracer
Webinar Agenda/Outline:
Infection Control Final Worksheet for Hospitals
- 49 page final hospital infection control worksheet
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Proposed changes in 2017
- Antibiotic stewardship program
- IP qualified
- Many proposed changes
- Infection preventionist identified and qualified
- Infection control program and resources
- Infection control policies required (many)
- Follows national recognized standards (CDC, APIC, etc.)
- CDC Vaccine storage memo
- PI process
- CDC Vaccines Storage and Handling
- ISMP IV Push guidelines
- HAI reported thru PI
- Training program and must include problems identified
- Leadership involvement
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Systems to prevent MDRO and correct antibiotic usage; stewardship
- Antibiotic orders include indications for use
- Prompt for clinicians to review
- Log of incidents rescinded
- CAUTI, VAP, SSI, MRSA, D-DIFF, CLABSI are identified and new tracers on HAI
- Process to identify present on admission or POA
- HCP competency assessments
- Identify and report and control infections
- MDRO and contact precautions
- Module on hand hygiene
- Infection prevention systems and training
- Injection practices and sharps safety
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Environmental cleaning and disinfection
- Disinfectants used correctly
- High touch environmental surfaces
- Reusable noncritical items (BP cuffs, pulse ox probes)
- Single use devices
- Laundry requirements
- Policies and procedures required
- Point of care devices (blood glucose monitors and INR monitors)
- Sharps
- Reprocessing non critical items
- Single use devices
- Urinary catheter tracer
- Central venous catheter tracer
- Protective environment (bone marrow patients)
- Isolation contact precautions information provided but not covered
- Isolation droplet precautions
- Isolation airborne precautions
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Critical care module
- Hand hygiene, sharps safety, injection safety, personal protection equipment, etc.
- Ventilator/respiratory therapy tracer
- Spinal injection practices
- Invasive procedure module
- Infection control in the Operating Room
- Hydrotherapy equipment
- Infection control tool
- Infection control questions to ask
- Questions for employee health nurse in worksheet three
- Questions for director of education in worksheet one
Contact Hours:
- Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 2.4 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339.
- All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 2 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program.
Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.
Refund Policy:
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.