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Summary:

This Webinar will help participants identify five sources of surgical site contamination; will describe current preoperative practices to reduce these sources of contamination; and will help participants understand the need to critically evaluate the “evidence” before implementing practice changes related to surgical processes.

Eligible for 1.0 credit hour

Speakers:

Suzanne M. Pear, RN, Ph.D, CIC is associate director for infection prevention practices within the Scientific Affairs and Clinical Education Department of Kimberly-Clark Health Care. Dr. Pear is a healthcare epidemiologist with extensive experience in clinical infection control practice and outbreak investigations. Her general area of expertise is healthcare- acquired infections and her special interests include surgical site infection, Clostridium difficile infection and device-associated infections. Dr. Pear is a registered nurse and obtained her bachelor's degree in Nursing from Long Island University in New York. She also holds a master's degree in medical-surgical nursing with an education concentration from the University of Arizona. Her thesis work investigated nurses' self-perception of hand-hygiene behavior. She subsequently obtained a doctorate degree in epidemiology from the College of Public Health at the same institution. Her dissertation work focused on the role of hyperglycemia in post-cardiac surgery infections. She has been certified in infection control and epidemiology (CIC) for more than 15 years.

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