Infection Prevention & Control Resources

Long-Term Care

About the Course
Brief Description
Surveillance & Stewardship Intensive takes a deeper dive into building your Healthcare-Acquired Infection (HAI) surveillance program, and creating and maintaining an Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) in your facility. This course will describe the relationship between McGeer criteria for Healthcare-Acquired Infection (HAI) surveillance and Loeb criteria for antibiotic stewardship, instructing participants on when and how to use each. Participants will learn how to analyze and risk-adjust data, and create reports for HAI surveillance and antibiotic stewardship for both Quality Assessment & Assurance (QAA) and ASP committees.
Course ObjectivesÂ
At the completion of the course, participant will be able to
Explain how to relate the HAI surveillance process with the Antibiotic Stewardship Program
Describe the Infection Preventionist's role in the ASP
Create and analyze HAI and antibiotic stewardship reports for facility committees
Who Should Attend This CourseÂ
This course is for Infection Preventionists (IPs) in Long-Term Care.  It deals with current topics important to today's infection prevention and control program. For those that have attended Boot Camp or other basic Infection Prevention & Control programs, this program will build on that foundation.
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Infection Preventionists
Licensed Nurses
Directors of Staff Development
Pharmacists
Directors of Nursing
Administrators
Course Content
​HAI Surveillance
Review McGeer criteria and apply it to performing HAI surveillance
Apply criteria in case studies
Understand how to utilize McGeer criteria appropriately and create meaningful reports of data to improve outcomes
Antibiotic Stewardship Program
Review Loeb criteria and apply it to antibiotic stewardship
Apply criteria in case studies
Understand how to utilize Loeb criteria appropriately and create meaningful reports of data to improve outcomes
Data Analysis and Report Writing
Analyze data using charts (e.g., trend, run, pie)
Create HAI surveillance reports for QAA committee
Create antibiotic utilization reports for ASP committee
Risk-adjust findings and analyze data for reporting to committee
Utilize various tools to analyze both HAI surveillance and antibiotic utilization data and how to create meaningful reports
In-Person Classroom Learning
Persons selecting this option will attend a live one-day in-person class. Participants must attend the entire conference for full continuing education credits. Attendance at this venue offers the participants an opportunity to interact directly with the course faculty.
Your Instructors
Dolly Greene & Nancy Parris
Dolly Greene and Nancy Parris are both Registered Nurses and Certified in Infection Control (CIC) and have extensive experience in Infection Prevention and Control in long-term care.
