PPT-Prepared Nurses Protect Patients: Prevention Strategies for Healthcare-Associated Infections

Objectives List significant healthcare associated infections Understand the epidemiology of significant healthcare associated infections Identify disease transmission Utilizing evidence based literature develop strategies used to prevent the spread of infection. Activity C: ELC Prevention Collaboratives. S.I. Berríos-Torres, MD. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Draft - 12/21/09 --- Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. Preventing . Healthcare-Associated Infections (. HAIs. ) . National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Healthcare-Associated Infections (. Arya. . Sedehi. ●Eric Esposito● . Lubna. Rashid. What are . HAIs. Develops within 48 hours or more of hospital admission. Related to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Background. 5-10% of hospitalized patients develop a HAI. Healthcare-Associated Infections (. HAIs. ) . National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Healthcare-Associated Infections (. HAIs. ). 1 out of 20 hospitalized patients affected. nfections . O. ccurring . in . Hospitals. Darline. Dupree. PhD Student. Walden University. PUBH 8165-2. Instructor: Dr. Robert Marino. Winter 2012. Hospital Board of Directors. OSHA. County Public Health Departments. Moving outside the walls of the Hospital. Objectives. Discuss how the evolution from Infection Control to Infection Prevention has decreased hospital acquired infections and multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs).. Actions For Healthcare ProvidersYou can protect your patients from antibiotic-resistant germs such as bacteria and fungi which can cause di31cult and sometimes impossible to treat infectionsPrevent In Image credit Consociazione Nazionale delle Associazioni Infermiere-InfermieriIn April 2020 ICN x0066006Cagged the increasing risk of burnout post-traumatic and other stress-related disorders among nur Cauti. S. ). Presented By:. April Beresford, Benjamin Kasper, and Kara Elkins. Problem. Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are the cause of many hospital acquired infections.. Nearly 25% of hospitalized patients are catheterized annually, and 10% of these patients develop . C - R ESISTANT E NTEROBACTERIACEAE ( CRE ) What is carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) ? Carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae is a type of gram - negative bacteria that is resista Rachel Wiseman, MPH Texas Department of State Health Services. Thomas Johnson City of Houston. Hepatitis A Overview. Fecal-oral transmission. Vaccine preventable. Vaccine licensed in 1995. 2 doses recommended (and required for school in TX) by age 4-6. Tract Infections. Learning objectives. Explain . the relevance of pneumonia in health care . institutions.. Outline . elements for defining HAI . pneumonia.. Identify . risk factors for . pneumonia.. Insert LOGO. DISCLAIMER. . This document was developed by the Surveillance Subcommittee (SS) of the Arizona Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Advisory Committee. SS is a multidisciplinary committee representing various healthcare disciplines working to define and categorize the strength of evidence for preventing healthcare-associated infections. Their work was guided by the best available evidence at the time this document was created. . Gastrointestinal Infections. Learning objectives. List . the types of microorganisms that can cause gastrointestinal infections (GI) associated with health care . facilities.. Define . diarrhoea. .. Identify .