(10 CEUs) Infection Control: Surveillance Strategies Defining Infection, Calculating Infection Rates; Urinary Tract Infections, Prevention, Management of UTI; Isolation Contact Precautions Resistant Organisms
Surveillance Strategies for Infection Control in Nursing Facilities; Criteria for Defining Infection in Nursing Facilities, Data Collection, Calculating Infection Rates: Definitions of infections in long term care facilities, criteria for defining infections in long term care facilities, benchmarking data on infection rates in long term care facilities.
Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Facilities, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention, Management: Analysis of urinary tract infections patterns and treatments, clinical fact sheets on indwelling and external catheters, example bladder retraining program, toileting scheduling.
Isolation in Nursing Facilities History, Rationale, Contact Precautions, Resistant Organisms: Isolation guidelines, recent advances in the management of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Enterococcus (MRSE), and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), recommendations for control of outbreak
