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Using Personal Protective Equipment for Patient Protection: Making the Case for Contact Precautions Compliance

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Continuing education credits -- contact hours

Available On Demand
Length: 60 minutes
Continuing Education: FREE. contact hours will be available when the Webinar is - October 18.

Description: The percentage of patients entering the healthcare environment who are colonized with MRSA, VRE or Clostridium difficile is increasing at an alarming rate. The correct and consistent use of PPE is critical to protecting susceptible patients from inadvertent colonization and subsequent development of health care-associated infections.
This Webinar will address:

  • The history and current use of medical PPE
  • Recent studies on the risks and benefits of PPE for the pediatric and adult patient
  • Strategies for helping the health care worker translate contact precautions knowledge into practice

Speaker:

Suzanne M. Pear, RN, Ph.D, CIC,
is associate director for infection control 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. Prior to coming to Kimberly-Clark Health Care, Dr. Pear practiced as infection control coordinator with the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System. She was also adjunct clinical faculty with the University of Arizona College of Nursing and lecturer in Infectious Diseases for the College of Public Health. 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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