Annual
Ensures your facility is prepared to handle a influx of people with an infectious disease. Including room placement, supplies and staffing plans.
What is OUtbreak Preparedness?
A process to review all exposure incidents to ensure employees receive post exposure evaluation and follow up and the facility reviews the circumstances of all exposure incidents.
What is Employee Incident Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Follow up?
Facility quality improvement meetings that IP/SDC will participate in monthly.
What is QAPI, Antibiotic Stewardship and Safety Committee?
Log of resident infections that is reviewed weekly to assist the IP in trending infections and follow up on each infection reported to guide prevention activities and implement control measures.
What is the Infection Surveillance Log?
Attended daily by the IP to identify potential/actual infections, areas of new or increased illness, new IV therapy or monitor outbreaks.
What is the Daily Clinical Meeting?
An event to ensure competency of your centers Licenced nurses and Resident Care Specialist
What is the Annual Skills Fair?
The Sava program for general employee orientation that is led by the centers leadership team and the SDC/IP participates in conducting a portion of.
What is The Basics?
Used to establish ongoing education that is rquired each month that includes required training topics and/or competencies.
What is the Annual Inservice Calendar?
A licensed nurse skill that is monitored by the IP weekly to ensure that infection prevention practices are being employed and we are preventing delayed wound healing and health care acquired infections of skin and wounds.
What is monitoring wound dressing technique?
Section of PCC that can be looked at daily to review new orders, new antibiotics and validate stop dates, IVs, lab results and isolation precautions.
What is the Clinical Dashboard?
A program to encourage influenza vaccination of all employees to decrease deaths from influenza among nursing home residents
What is the annual influenza education and vaccine campaign?
Completed with new employees to determine immunity or immunization from infectious diseases.
What is the Employee Immunization History?
The forms used to document your reviews and observations to assess compliance with infection prevention standards
What are the Compliance Round Forms?
Completed with all new direct care staff during their first 4 weeks of employment to ensure they can demonstrate they know how to perform required resident care tasks.
What are the Licensed Nurse and Resident Care Specialist competency checklists?
The IP conduct this investigation and report this to appropriate leadership and support staff and health department as directed.
What is an Outbreak Investigation?
Used to assess the facility's risk for transmission of tuberculosis and to direct the TB control measures to be implemented
What is the Annual TB Risk assessment?
A Sava Program designed to prevent employee and resident injuries during resident transfers and is completed on hire and annually
What is the Lift and Transfer Program?
A report presented monthly to the QAPI Committe that shows statistics
What is the Monthly Infection Surveillance Summary Report?
The IP/SDC offer this to all new employees who perform tasks that expose to bood and other body fluid. If they accept they will be responsible for administering a series of 3 IM injections followed by an anitbody titre 1-2 months after completion.
What is the Hepatitis B Vaccination?
Rounds are conducted daily focus on these resident care policies critical to infection prevention.
What are Hand hygiene, isolation precautions, perineal/catheter care, PPE use and supply, G Tube care and ostomy care?
OSHA, BBP, TB, Infection Control Practices, and the facility Exposure Control Plan
What is the required Infection Prevention education program that needs to presented to employees annually?
Organizations that a IP can join and attend to further their knowledge and keep up with guidance on IP Best Practices.
What is local or regional Infection Preventionist Group/Chapter meetings?
Committee meetings that are conducted monthly to evaluate trends and develop action items to promote the appropriate use of antibiotics, and helps minimize the risk of antibiotic over use and resistance
What is the Antibiotic Stewardship Program Committee?
The IP will screen review documentation in PCC for all new admissions to ensure we are performing this test according to our Tuberculosis Control Plan.
What is the TST?
After attending daily stand up meeting and clinical meeting the SDC would identify what area of her job to complete.
What are educational opportunites or skill competency needs related to resident care?