Hand Hygiene Compliance in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Patients Can See It!
Thursday, February 2, 2023 @ 1 pm ET
Marie Moss & Jemilat Siju
Ms. Moss and Ms. Siju will discuss the IPC-Nursing collaboration which led to the successful implementation of a novel “patient as observer” hand hygiene compliance program in the ambulatory care setting of a large urban health system.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, the learner will be able to:
- Identify challenges related to hand hygiene monitoring
and assessment of compliance in the ambulatory setting.
- Describe ways infection prevention can work
collaboratively with nursing leadership and shared
governance to achieve improved compliance with
multidisciplinary hand hygiene in outpatient practices.
- Understand the importance of ongoing collaboration
between Infection Prevention and Nursing to sustain
program improvements.
- Understand the importance of an effective, ongoing
communication strategy to initiate and maintain
engagement of ambulatory administration, frontline staff,
and patients in an ambulatory hand hygiene compliance
program.
Continuing Education (CE) Credit:
- In support of improving patient care, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
- The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) designates this activity for 1 nursing contact hours. (not always applicable as not all webinars are eligible).
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