Webinar | Sepsis Matters: Early Recognition and Management for Nursing Home and Home Health Agency Providers
[caption id="attachment_8250" align="alignright" width="300"] Teresa Hulett, RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC[/caption]
Webinar | Clostridium difficile – The Bug, The Battle & How to Block
Sue Burns, medical science liaison for PDI Healthcare, will be discussing Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) bacteria and why it's a concern within healthcare today. Participants will learn methods of prevention and avoiding transmission.
Webinar | Developing a Regional Approach to CDI Prevention
Preventing Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) takes a community.
Webinar | New Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) Guidelines
This webinar is in follow up to the evidence-based guidelines for implementation and measurement of antibiotic stewardship interventions in inpatient populations that were recently published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Webinar | VAE Surveillance: A Case Study on Reporting to National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
Join us for a Coaching Call where we will use a case study to demonstrate how to perform surveillance for ventilator-associated events (VAEs). Topics will include tools and resources to facilitate VAE surveillance and strategies for overcoming common challenges along the way. The Webinar will also include an overview of the key elements for VAE reduction.
Webinar | Thinking Differently: Infection Prevention and Healthcare Disparities
[caption id="attachment_4105" align="alignright" width="171"] Sharon Eloranta, MD George W. Merck/IHI Fellow Medical Director, Quality & Safety Initiatives, Qualis Health[/caption]
Webinar | Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE) – Part Two
Join the Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center (QIN NCC) as we host Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE) - Part Two educational webinar.
Webinar: Accelerating Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is an important cause of infectious disease death in the United States. C. difficile was estimated to cause almost half a million infections in the United States in 2011. Approximately 83,000 of the patients who developed C. difficile experienced at least one recurrence and 29,000 died within 30 days of the initial diagnosis. This webinar will discuss targeting and implementing CDI prevention strategies in the acute care setting.