Behavioral Health patients and practice settings afford unique infection prevention challenges. Infection preventionists must translate basic epidemiology strategies in order to provide practical guidance. COVID-19 highlighted these concerns. This webinar will provide useful solutions to behavioral health obstacles, including those presented by COVID-19.
Objectives:
- Outline an infection control program for behavioral health
- Discuss infection prevention challenges in various behavioral health settings
- Identify at least one strategy to prevent infections in each unique behavioral health setting.
- Utilize infection prevention strategies to prevent and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 in behavioral health settings
CNE:
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC) is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- Nursing Contact Hours: 1 (not always applicable as not all webinars are eligible)
- To get CNE for a webinar, you must attend the program in its entirety and complete an on-line evaluation of it. Your feedback is not only required by our CNE accrediting body, but it is vital to development of future programming that best meets learners' needs. We read every word you write.