Infection Prevention in Nursing Homes

Description

Learn about the role of the environment in disease transmission and how to implement standard and transmission-based precautions in your facility to prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other infections.

Syllabus :

1. Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

• Infection Prevention in Nursing Homes Introduction
• Defining antibiotic resistance
• 1.2 Understanding antibiotic resistance
• 1.3 Understanding how antibiotic resistant bacteria spread
• 1.4 Controlling the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria

 

2. Isolation Precautions

• The chain of infection
• Review of Standard Precautions
• Contact Precautions
• Droplet Precautions
• Airborne Precautions

 

3. Safe Injection Practices

• The Big Picture
• Safe Injection Practices
• Safe Diabetes Care 

 

4. Environmental Disinfection

• The role of the environment in disease transmission
• How to clean the environment effectively
• Monitoring the effectiveness of cleaning
• Cleaning hard to kill pathogens: C. difficile and Norovirus

 

5. UTI Prevention in Nursing Homes

• Epidemiology of UTIs
• Diagnosing a UTIs
• Treating UTIs
• Prevention of UTIs

 

6. C. difficile Prevention in Nursing Homes

• Epidemiology of C. difficile
• Development of C. difficile Infection
• Cross-transmission of C. difficile
• Control and Prevention of C. difficile

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