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Infection Prevention Spotlight
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEach year 1.7 million Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) occur that contribute to 99,000 deaths and $20 billion in healthcare costs. What makes these numbers even more tragic is that 70 percent of all the HAIs are PREVENTABLE!Infection Prevent Spotlight was created by an Infection Preventionist (IP) certified in Infection Control (CIC) for other IPs and everyone else responsible for keeping patients safe from harm. It's hard for IPs to be responsible for reducing HAIs (CLABSIs, CAUTIs, SSIs, MDROs (C.diff, MRSA, VRE, CRE)) and the harm and deaths they cause as well as the financial costs of these results on Medicare reimbursement and public reporting. As an IP I understand this and that's why I've created this podcast. I wanted to make a safe place to talk about these challenges, understand the emerging issues, share the newest best practices and current research, and to be a place where IPs could support each other in our journey to zero Harm. Infection Prevention and Control spans multiple areas: hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient surgery centers, dialysis centers, ambulance companies / emergency management, schools, and even our homes. My hope is that Infection Prevention Spotlight will provide you with the motivation, knowledge, and quick tips to take back to your team, facility, for your own journey where ever it may be and prevent HAIs by engaging, communicating, leading, demonstrating, reviewing, and teaching about: hand hygiene (HH) |hand washing; indwelling catheters; central venous catheters; surgical procedures; isolation procedures / isolation precautions (Contact, Droplet, Airborne); Standard precautions; hospital leadership, IP systems and staff training; personal protective equipment; environmental services; linen / laundry; Reprocessing of non-critical equipment, semi-critical equipment (high-level disinfection), reusable critical equipment/instruments/devices (sterilization); ventilator / respiratory therapy; environmental disinfection / cleaning; antibiotic stewardship; performance improvement; and Survey Readiness. We are stronger together, let’s make it to zero and save lives.
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Episodes
AJIC Abstracts - Bacterial biofilm causing infections
October 26, 2017 21:25 - 8 minutes - 5.83 MBJoin Kara Mullane as she reads two selected AJIC Abstracts from Journal Oct 2017, Vol 45, No 10. Topics: Healthcare worker perspectives of their motivation to reduce health care-associate infections and Bacterial biofilm-based catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance. As a follow up to the biofilm topic, if you are a biofilm expert and can speak to specifics on how to stunt biofilm formation on medical devices such as urinary catheters we w...
C.difficile Prevention: Beyond the Basics
October 16, 2017 20:28 - 23 minutes - 16 MBJoin Kara Mullane as she spotlights the issue of C.difficile and what we can do to go beyond the basics for prevention of this awful disease. Don’t forget to download the infographic and talking points on InfectionPreventionSpotlight.com/episode006. Share this episode with you fellow IPs. Help us stop the spread of C.diff.
AJIC Abstracts - WHO Hand Hygiene
October 16, 2017 16:11 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MBJoin Kara Mullane as she reads two selected AJIC Abstracts from - Journal Sept 2017, Vol 45, No 8. Topics: Efficacy of the WHO recommended hand washing technique and a modified washing technique to remove C.diff from hands; Hand Hygiene compliance in a universal gloving setting. Subscribe and never miss and episode!
Select AJIC Hand Hygiene Abstract Readings - WHO Hand Hygiene
October 16, 2017 16:11 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MBJoin Kara Mullane as she reads two selected AJIC Abstracts from - Journal Sept 2017, Vol 45, No 8. Topics: Efficacy of the WHO recommended hand washing technique and a modified washing technique to remove C.diff from hands; Hand Hygiene compliance in a universal gloving setting. Subscribe and never miss and episode!
Germ Theory and Hand Hygiene
October 13, 2017 19:02 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MBWhere does Germ Theory originate and what does it have to do with Infection Prevention today? Join Kara Mullane as she spotlights the story of the brilliant Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. Subscribe and never miss and episode!
Select AJIC Abstract Readings - MRSA transmission to gowns and gloves and more!
October 13, 2017 12:40 - 13 minutes - 9.04 MBJoin Kara Mullane as she reads three selected AJIC Abstracts from Journal September 2017, Volume 45, Number 9. Article Abstract topics: Inappropriate CNA glove us in long term care; Transmission of MRSA to HCW gown and gloves during care at a VA nursing home; Can patient Hand Hygiene have an impact on C.diff at an academic medical center. Find out. Subscribe and never miss and episode!
AJIC Abstracts - MRSA transmission to gowns and gloves and more!
October 13, 2017 12:40 - 13 minutes - 9.04 MBJoin Kara Mullane as she reads three selected AJIC Abstracts from Journal September 2017, Volume 45, Number 9. Article Abstract topics: Inappropriate CNA glove us in long term care; Transmission of MRSA to HCW gown and gloves during care at a VA nursing home; Can patient Hand Hygiene have an impact on C.diff at an academic medical center. Find out. Subscribe and never miss and episode!
Interview with Sue Barnes - Infection Preventionist's Role in Antibiotic Stewardship
September 27, 2017 23:03 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBInterview with Infection Prevention icon, Sue Barnes. She explains the need for Antibiotic Stewardship in today's world and the Infection Preventionist's role in the Antibiotic Stewardship Program. Subscribe to never miss an episode.
Welcome to Infection Prevention Spotlight
September 26, 2017 19:41 - 9 minutes - 4.38 MBWelcome to the first episode of Infection Prevention Spotlight, a podcast by Kara Mullane, RN, MSN, CIC to shine a spotlight on all areas of Infection Prevention and give a voice to the Infection Preventionist. Kara talks about her inspiration for the podcast and Infection prevention, and her plans for creating a place where Infection Preventionists and all individuals responsible for keeping patients and staff safe from transmissible diseases can come together to hear the latest and greates...