Catalog Number : ngd1572
Title : Joint Commission Infection Control
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 1-5-2011
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Description:

Infection control is a hot area in 2014 and it is essential that hospitals focus their attention on this important area. There are about 2 million healthcare-associated infections and 100,000 deaths in U.S. hospitals each year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). CMS has 10 hospital acquired conditions (HACs) in which there will be no additional money paid and infections is one of these categories. CMS will also start reporting each hospital’s scores and reduce payments by 1% to hospitals with the highest rate of medical errors and infections starting in 2015. Therefore, it will cost hospitals money if they do not do this right. The state departments of health recently received a 50 million grant to enforce infection control standards so this is a hot topic. CMS has issued 12 pages of infection control standards and the Joint Commission has 8 pages of standards. CMS has also issued a revised worksheet on infection control which will be discussed. What becomes important to CMS is reflected in what Joint Commission does. CMS has also noted they will make unannounced surveys to review infection control standards.

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall that the Joint Commission has standards on infection prevention and control
• Discuss that infection control is important in healthcare today and is being hit hard in the survey process
• Discuss that not doing infection control well could cost hospitals a lot of money
• Describe that the point of care devices like a glucometer must be cleaned between patient use
• Recall that single dose medications may only be used on one patient

Target Audience:

Infection Preventionist, CNO, COO, Nurse Educator, Hospital Epidemiologists, Infection Control Committee, Nurses, Nurse Managers, PI Directors, JC Coordinators, CMS Regulatory Director, Risk Manager, Senior Leadership, Board Members, Lab Director, Patient Safety Officer, Compliance Officer, Dietician, Maintenance Director and Staff, Housekeeping (Environmental Services) and anyone interested or responsible for infection control

A few of the topics to be discussed:

• Introduction
• Cost of HAIs to healthcare
• Number of HAIs by site
• Relationship to CMS 12 pages hospital CoP standards
• CMS gets 50 million dollar grant to enforce IC standards
• Steam sterilization/flash sterilization (immediate use)
• CMS revised worksheet on infection control
• CMS memo on safe injection practices
• CMS memo on insulin pens
• Injection safety
• Planning for infection control
• Infection preventionist requirements
• Resources needed
• APIC's targeting zero campaign
• Hand hygiene and TJC publication
• Risks for acquiring and transmitting infections
• Goals to minimize transmitting infections
• Infection control activities
• Infection prevention and control plan
• Responding to influx of potentially infectious patients
• Risk of infections with equipment and supplies
• CDC guidelines
• Reduction of transmission among patients and staff
• Flu vaccination
• Evaluation of infection prevention and control plan
• MDRO, surgical site infections, and preventing central line infections
• Other TJC infection control standards outside IC chapter
• Cleaning of point of care devices such as glucometers
• Single use lancing device
• Single and multi-dose vials