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Preventing Clostridioides Difficile Infections
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Clostridioides Difficile infections (CDI) continue to be a challenge for long term care facilities. Many questions related to infection prevention and management of this resistant infection occur. As part of the skilled nursing facility's comprehensive infection control and prevention plan, it is important to ensure teams are looking to identify gaps in infection prevention and control. CDI infections can lead to severe dehydration and even death for the fragile elderly resident. This on-demand webinar provides an overview of risk identification for CDI, including how to ensure the facility is properly identifying acquired infections versus nosocomial infections. Prevention strategies, including the concerns with proper environmental cleaning, are also discussed.
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
- Identify five risk factors for Clostriodioides Difficile infection (CDI)
- Describe surveillance case definition for CDI
- Discuss strategies to prevent transmission of CDI
Presenters: A.C. Burke, RB Health Partners, Inc.
COST: Free to FHCA Members
*No CEUs are provided for this program.
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A.C. Burke, MA, CIC
Vice President of Healthcare Quality
RB Health Partners, Inc.
A.C. Burke, MA, CIC, is the Vice President for Healthcare Quality for RB Health Partners, Inc. and is the primary author for the Nursing Home Infection Prevention Program (NIPP©), NIPPing Infections in the Bud. She holds a master’s degree in health management and is Board Certified in Infection Control (CIC) by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology. Her 20 years of experience includes creating, implementing, and managing programs that have achieved national recognition, partnership building, meeting facilitation, consensus building, and developing competency- based training curricula for healthcare workers across the continuum of care. AC has worked in public health preparedness and response roles, served as the manager of the Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention Program for the Florida Department of Health as well as the Director of Infection Prevention for Mayo Clinic Florida.
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