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Overview
This course provides the acute care healthcare team with information on preventing hospital-acquired infections to improve quality.Goals and Learning Outcomes
If you have worked in a hospital or other healthcare institution, you are likely familiar with healthcare-associated infection (HAI). A HAI is an infection a patient acquired while being treated for another unrelated medical condition (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021). They can occur in any type of healthcare institution and are primarily associated with medical and surgical procedures where devices like ventilators or catheters are used. For data collection, a patient is considered to have an HAI if it develops within 48 hours after hospitalization, within 30 days of receiving healthcare, or within 90 days of undergoing a surgical procedure (Liu & Dickter, 2020).
Many HAIs are preventable but continue to cause deaths and generate billions of dollars of expenditures in the U.S., as 1 in 31 hospitalized patients develop an HAI yearly (CDC, 2023). This course describes the main types of HAIs, transmission routes, and guidelines for their prevention. It also reviews methods of collecting data for HAI surveillance. It will use review questions to promote active learning.
- Identify the common types of HAIs and how they are transmitted.
- Indicate best practice methods among the healthcare team for the prevention of HAIs.
- Recall data collection methods for the surveillance of HAIs.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 9/1/2024
REL-ACU-0-IPQP
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC 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.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.