Tuesday, June 5 8-10:30 a.m. | Session 2101


Infection Prevention Risk Assessment the Starting Place for Your Infection Prevention Program


An organizational infection prevention risk assessment can assist in setting priorities and in energizing teams within an organization to implement a highly effective infection prevention plan. This workshop will take participants through the process of conducting an infection prevention risk assessment.


Terrie Lee, RN, MS, MPH, CIC Director, Infection Prevention and Employee Health Charleston Area Medical Center


8-10:30 a.m. | Session 2102 NHSN – CAUTI Workshop: Preparing for CMS Reporting


Are you confident about your CAUTI reporting to NHSN CMS? This interactive, audience participation based workshop will provide you with the information you need for successful CAUTI case finding and reporting via NHSN.


Katherine Allen-Bridson, RN, MScPH, CIC Nurse Consultant


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC Director, Infection Prevention


Greenville Hospital System, University Medical Center


Angela M. Anttila-Bivens, RN, MSN, NP-C, CIC Nurse Epidemiologist


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8-10:30 a.m. | Session 2103


Human Factors and Ergonomics in Infection Prevention


This workshop is designed to provide an understanding of human factors and systems engineering and how this approach to infection prevention can improve performance, prevent harm when an error does occur, help systems recover, and mitigate further harm.


Carla Alvarado, PhD Research Scientist Emerita University of Wisconsin-Madison


8-10:30 a.m. | Session 2104 How to Develop an Infection Surveillance Program in Long Term Care


Participants will learn strategies for developing an infection surveillance plan based on the needs of the resident popula- tion in their facility; discuss ways to implement infection sur- veillance definitions and preview the NHSN LTC component.


Nimalie Stone, MD/MS


Medical Epidemiologist for Long-term Care Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


1:30-4 p.m. | Session 2700 How and Why to Write an Abstract


This workshop is designed to assist infection preventionists in developing their skills to successfully prepare abstracts for submission to international scientific conferences. Learning through a hands-on, mentoring approach, participants will walk through effective technical writing through interactive discussions and feedback on drafted abstracts. You will leave this workshop with the confidence and ability to submit an abstract to next year’s APIC conference.


Teresa Fulton, RN, MSN, CIC Chief Quality Officer Whidbey General Hospital


1:30-4 p.m. | Session 2701 Clean Spaces, Healthy Patients


The Clean Spaces, Healthy Patients project brings together leaders in infection prevention and environmental services. The project is a collaborative between APIC and the Association for the Healthcare Environment. Panelists will discuss role of the environment in disease transmission, low level disinfection and sterilization processes and methods, new room decontamination, and best practices for room cleaning.


 Disinfectants Used for Environmental Disinfection and New Room Decontamination Technology


William Rutala, PhD, MPH Director, Hospital Epidemiology Occupational Health and Safety Program Professor of Medicine Director, Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Care


 Role of Environmental Surfaces in Disease Transmission Jonathan Otter, MD Scientific Director, Healthcare Bioquell


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