There are many aspects to infection control, including prevention, protocol breaches, tracking, reporting, education, and more. Is your agency tracking and reviewing its own reporting to look for ways to improve and determine what education is needed for staff, patients, and caregivers? This can’t-miss webinar will provide tips, tools, and six core compliance practices for infection control and prevention.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Understand the hospice Conditions of Participation standards for infection control
• Discuss the core standards and QAPI’s role in infection prevention and control
• Review best practices and resources and manage an effective infection prevention and control program

WEBINAR DETAILS: Prevention is the largest component of an effective infection prevention and control program. It is essential to protect hospice patients, families, and caregivers from avoidable infections, costly treatment, and pain. Every year, surveys show that breaches in infection prevention contribute to avoidable deficiencies for hospice agencies. This session will offer guidance on how to prevent infections and explain the importance of tracking infections and interpreting agency-specific data to guide education for patients, caregivers, and staff. It will provide tips and tools for conducting competencies, providing education, and infection control tracking, and will include best practices pertaining to bag technique and hand hygiene.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: Hospice

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This informative session is designed for clinical managers and direct care providers, including hospice volunteers.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Handout
• Training log
• PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
• Attendance certificate provided

DON’T MISS THIS RELATED WEBINAR!

Infection Control & Prevention: Regulations & How to Implement an Effective Surveillance Program originally presented on Wednesday, June 12, 2024

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

MEET THE PRESENTER:  Victoria Barron, MBA, BSN, RN, Healthcare Provider Solutions

Victoria Barron is a Registered Nurse who joined Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc. (HPS) in December 2021 as a Clinical Consultant. As part of the HPS clinical consulting team, Victoria provides support and solutions nationally to help home health and hospice agencies achieve regulatory compliance.

With more than 37 years of nursing and healthcare experience, the majority of Victoria’s career has been in the home services arena including home health, hospice, home care, and home infusion where she has served in various roles. In home health and hospice, Victoria has served as agency administrator, interim administrator, clinical director, surveyor, mock surveyor, QAPI team member, and consultant. In private duty, she has served as agency administrator, and in home infusion, as marketing director and infusion Registered Nurse. Victoria is a licensed multistate Registered Nurse and is CHAP certified as a Hospice and Home Health Consultant.

Registration fee:     Member- $159          Non-member- $229

There are no cancellations or refunds.

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