Please note: Agenda is subject to change
Day One - Thursday, September 18, 2008
8:00 – 8:30 am
Opening/Welcome
Barbara Moore Soule, MPA, RN, CIC
Moderator
Practice Leader – Infection Prevention and Control
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
8:30 – 9:15 am
A Mother’s Plea
Hear one family’s campaign to establish a “Safe Care Campaign” after their son, Josh, died from an infection he caught from his care in October 2006. They have developed a website to better education patients and their families regarding good, safe care, and work closely with CDC, APIC and hospital health care systems in the effort to prevent these infections thru a variety of educational projects, hand hygiene, videos and speaking engagements.
Victoria Nahum
Executive Director
Safe Care Campaign
Mableton, GA
9:15 – 10:30 am
Infection Control Legislative Updates for Healthcare Organizations and Community Agencies
This session will identify the practices recommended by new IC legislative guidelines and the impact on healthcare organizations and community agencies. Offer advice for developing a rational response for institutions and providers regarding reporting requirements and mandatory surveillance, reporting and screening of patients and workers.
Stephen Weber, MD, MS
Assistant Professor Section of Infectious Diseases
Hospital Epidemiologist, Medical Director of Infection Control
University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Consultant, Joint Commission Resources, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
10:30 – 10:45 am
Break
10:45 – 12:00 pm
Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI)- Allied Task Force: Compendium of Practical Implementation Strategies for the Prevention and Monitoring of HIA Infections in Acute-Care Hospitals
Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI) – Allied Task Force is lead by IDSA and SHEA. Other primary organizations in the HAI-Allied Task Force includes APIC, The Joint Commission and AHA. This task force has developed a new set of infection control implementation strategies based on existing evidence-based guidelines and research for six common HAI's including surgical site infections, catheter associated blood stream infections, catheder associated UTI's, ventilator acquired pneumonia, MRSA and C-DAD. These strategies will be presented with an emphasis on how to implement in your organization.
Kelly L. Podgorny, RN, MS, CPHQ
Project Director, Division of Standards and Survey Methods
Joint Commission
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 pm
Track A Moderator:
Louise Kuhny, RN, MPH, MBA, CIC
Senior Associate Director-Standards Interpretation
The Joint Commission
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Track B Moderator:
Carol O’Boyle
RN, MS, PhD
Consultant
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 1A. Strategies to Reduce MRSA Infections in the NICU
Learn the innovative process to screen all admissions to the NICU for MRSA nasal colonization which reduced MRSA in the NICU by applying the principles of performance improvement. Through this eradication of MRSA they reduced overall mortality rates within the most vulnerable of all patients in the NICU.
Jeremias Murillo, MD
Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director of Infection Control and Epidemiology
Saint Barnabas Health Care System
Newark, NJ
1B. Data Mining for Infection Prevention: You Can Do It
Case study of the creation of an in-house data mining system which transformed data into valuable information to identify and detect microbial clusters to prevent costly outbreaks. Learn how to use current resources with a laboratory interface to a current infection control database.
Thanh Dao
Infection Control Practitioner II
St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System
Pearland, TX
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 – 3:45 pm
2A. Reduction of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections through Technological Innovations
An upward trend of UTI’s was identified by the IC Dept and a timeline was used to implement a process change. Learn the technological innovations that made the reduction in catheter device days and the importance of education, direction and feedback for nursing and the medical staff in the implementation.
Barbara Jordan, RN, MSN, CCRN
Clinical Director, IC/Regulatory Compliance
UPMC St. Margaret
Pittsburgh, PA
2B. Creating Customize Education Tools to Translate Policy into Action
Learn how to create a short hand hygiene teaching tool that can become a part of the pre-employment review process in the employee health office using adult learning principles.
Sandra Stricoff MS, RN, COHN-S, CIC
Director, Infection Control and Employee Health
St. Anthony Community Hospital
Warwick, NY
3:45 – 4:15 pm
Presenter Panel Discussion
Day Two - Friday, September 19, 2008
7:00 – 7:45 am
Breakfast Briefing “Consensus Measurement on Hand Hygiene”
Loretta Litz Fauerback, B.S., M.S.
Director of Infection Control
Shands Hospital, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
8:00 – 8:15 am
Update/Announcements
Barbara Moore Soule, MPA, RN, CIC
Practice Leader – Infection Prevention and Control
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Moderator
8:15 – 9:45 am
Mitigating Infection Control Risks
This presentation will demonstrate how the Dept of Infection Control can reengineer work processes such as Infection Control Risk Assessments, Surveillance and Educational Efforts to migrate incompatible legacy information systems with little or no use of the limited Health Information Systems resources and with negligible fiscal investment. Learn how to increase workflow, and to display how these methods augment the accuracy and timelines of data analysis to improve patient safety.
Elizabeth Coughlin BSN, CIC, MPA
Director of Infection Control/EHS
New York Westchester Square Medical Center
9:45 – 10:00 am
Break
10:00 – 11:30 am
Options to Increase Isolation Surge Capacity
Address how hospitals will manage the demand for personal protective equipment that is demanded by additional surge rooms. Learn the plan of Wisconsin hospitals to increase isolation capacity both for day-to-day and outbreak isolation needs and three engineering options to add isolation surge capacity in an outbreak and the use of protective equipment.
Dennis Tomczyk, MA
Director Hospital Emergency Preparedness
WI Division of Public Health
11:30 – 12:30 pm
Lunch
12:30 – 1:45 pm
Track A Moderator:
Louise Kuhny, RN, MPH, MBA, CIC
Senior Associate Director-Standards Interpretation
The Joint Commission
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Track B Moderator:
Carol O’Boyle, RN, MS, PhD
Consultant
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 3A. Creation and Implementation of an Influenza Vaccination Program in a Behavioral Health Residential Setting for Staff and Clients (#17)
Understand how to set up an influenza vaccination program for staff and clients in a behavioral health residential setting and how to successfully utilize your pharmacy and medical staff to guide this vaccine program.
Lisa Green, RN, BSN, CIC
Corporate Compliance Office/Director of Nursing
Perseus House, Erie, PA
3B. Zero Tolerance for Central Line Associated Bacteremia and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (#22)
During this presentation, two tools will be presented to reduce CLAB and VAP and replicate these interventions to drive infection rates to zero in your institution.
Jeanne Zack, PhD, RN, CIC
Manager, Infection Prevention and Control
Missouri Baptist Medical Centern
St. Louis, MO
1:45 – 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 – 3:15 pm
4A. Central Venous Catheter Related Infections in Home Infusion Therapy: Current Evidence and Recommendations
Current research documenting the risk of infection among home infusion therapy patients and best practice recommendations based upon evidence and the Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice will be shared. An educational tool developed by nurses will address evidence based practice for the home health care nurse.
Lisa Gorski, MS, APRN, BC, CRNI, FAAN
President, Infusion Nurses Society
Mequon, WI
4B. Patient Safety and Surgical Wound Infection Prevention
Patient safety and wound prevention in the surgical area is a paramount concern for healthcare. This session will focus on the "best practice" initiative involving 113 hospitals, regarding wound infection prevention, done on behalf of ACS.
Darrell Campbell Jr., MD
Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Chief of Surgery
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Presenter Panel Discussion
3:30-3:45 pm
Break
3:45 – 4:45 pm
Closing Plenary Options: OSHA Guidelines for Infection Control in 2008 for the Health Care Worker
Introducing the new Acting Director, Office of Occupational Medicine, Directorate of Science, Technology and Medicine, OSDOL-OSHA
Patricia A. Bray, MD, MPH
Dr. Bray will bring a body of medical knowledge in developing guidance in the workplace setting and health procedures and practices to protect the healthcare worker.
Patricia A. Bray, MD, MPH
Board Certified Occupational Medicine Physician and Medical Officer
4:45 – 5:00 pm
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