1 Hour
Dec 17, 2021
Hindsight & Forethought – COVID-19 and Infection Prevention - Webinar 2021
Speaker
Ann Marie Pettis RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC, Director, Ambulatory Infection Prevention, University of Rochester Medicine, Highland Hospital
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a steep learning curve for us all. To keep patients and staff as safe as possible, infection preventionists researched, implemented, educated, then modified as conditions and information evolved over the past 19 months. What worked well? What didn’t? And what practices can we carry into future practice? This one-hour webinar discusses these questions and other COVID-19 infection prevention topics. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number 12205 for 1 contact hour.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the webinar, the participant should be able to:
- Identify at least 2 infection prevention practices that were successful during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how they might be adapted for the post-acute COVID-19 period.
- Discuss the role of antibiotic and diagnostic stewardship in ongoing pandemic preparedness and health care associated infections.
- Contrast several strategies that worked well during the COVID response with those strategies which did not.
- Discuss unique challenges experienced in other healthcare settings such as ambulatory and long term care during the pandemic.
- Outline the challenge experienced regarding the prevention of health care associated infections during the pandemic.