Tuberculosis Screening for Health Care Workers and Residents in the Skilled Nursing Facility

As part of a skilled nursing facility's comprehensive infection control and prevention plan, it is a requirement to screen staff and residents for tuberculosis. Many facilities either do too little or too much, making the process ineffective and noncompliant. This on-demand webinar discusses the most current guidelines for properly screening residents and staff, which may provide a less complicated procedure that could save facilities time and money while effectively screening.

Learner Objectives

Learn the current guidelines for screening healthcare workers for Tuberculosis in Florida.
Learn the current guidelines for screening skilled nursing facility residents for Tuberculosis in Florida.
Access CDC guidelines.

No CEUs are offered for this on-demand program.

Presenters: A.C. Burke, RB Health Partners, Inc.

COST: Free to FHCA members only

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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.